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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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Moreover, God gives grace to the humble, that is, 1he shows favour to them, when they come and ask any thing at his hands, because an humble man will be ready to do whatsoever he will: it is an expression used of David, in Acts 2. 22. he 2will do whatsoever I will: that may be said of every humble man, he is exceeding pliable to the Lords will, he is ready to do whatsoever he knows to be his pleasure, he resists him in nothing. Now, when a man will do whatsoever God will, the Lord will be ready to do whatsoever ⟨p. 124⟩be will, he will be ready to say to him, as he did to the […], Oh woman, be it to thee as 3thou wills. When a man, on the other side, resists the Lord, (as every proud man doth saith the text) the Lord resists him the Lord resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. A resisting spirit causeth the Lord to resist our prayers, and therefore it is, that the Lord is ready to the humble man, because he yields to the Lord in all things, and when a man yields to the Lord, (take that for a rule) in obeying God's commandments, God 4will yield to us in granting our petitions.
Moreover, God giues grace to the humble, that is, 1he shewes favour to them, when they come and aske any thing at his hands, because an humble man will be readie to doe whatsoever he will: it is an expression vsed of David, in Acts 2. 22. hee 2will doe whatsoever I will: that may be said of every humble man, he is exceeding pliable to the Lords will, hee is ready to doe whatsoever hee knowes to be his pleasure, hee resists him in nothing. Now, when a man will doe whatsoever God will, the Lord will be readie to doe whatsoever