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The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…
The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in five sermons upon I Thess. 5.17. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, Master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in fiue sermons vpon I Thess. 5.17. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by W. Jones, 1629London: printed by W. Iones, 1629
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You know, it is a rule, that the Lord keeps for those that are humble and low, such he exalts; 1those that exalt themselves he puts down. Now when a man is little in his own eyes, that parvity, that sense of his own unworthiness is a prevailing argument with him; and therefore Gen. 32. Jacob useth that argument, when he comes to put up that petition, to be delivered 2from Esa•: Lord, I am less then all thy mercies▪ that is, take any of thy mercies, and put them in one end of the balance, and p•t me in the other, and I am less then it, and […] then it, take• ⟨p. 123⟩the worth that is in me, it is not heavy enough for the least mercy. Now, when he was thus humbled, and little, and vile in his own eyes, the Lord bestowed that mercy on him, he was now fit to receive it. For, David, when the Lord sends him word by Nathan, that he would build him a house for ever, (you see how he expressed 3himself) he went into the house of the Lord, and sate before him, and said, Lord, what am I, and what is my fathers house? As if he should say, I was taken out of the dust, I was one of the meanest men of Israel, and a man of no account, of no worth, and yet thou hast had respect unto •e, thus far, not only to make me King over thy people, but to build my Kingdom, and my house, to make me a constant house for ever. I say, this sense of our own unworthiness, it makes us more fit to receive the mercy, to be exalted by receiving such a request, as we put up to the Lord, and therefore he regards the prayer of the humble.
You know, it is a rule, that the Lord keepes for those that are humble and low, such hee exalts; 1