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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.
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Lastly, the Lord is ready to hear those that 1are humble; because, whatsoever they receive, they take it as of grace, and not as debt: whereas a proud man, a man that hath a good conceit of himself, a man that is list up in his own opinion, thinks it to be due, he thinks there is some correspondence between his works, and the wages. You know what is said of the Pharisee, that the publican went away justified, rather then he. Why 2so? Because the Publican thought himself worthy of nothing. And therefore Ezek. 36. 31. when 3the Lord promiseth those great mercies to his people, he requires this condition of them, that they should acknowledge themselves worthy to be destroyed. When a man hath a sense of his own unworthiness, and so comes to the Lord, and asks it as of mere grace and mercy; that is a great motive to prevail with him: for he is very careful of that; you know, in Deut. 8. 11. how 4wary the Lord was in giving this rule to them; take beede when thou comest into that good land, think not to say with thy self, the Lord hath done this for my own righteousness: no, saith he, I have not done it for that, but for my Covenant which I made with Abraham, Isaac, and laceh, that is, for my own names sake, for my mercies sake, for the covenant, that I confirmed with them, that is the covenant in Jesus Christ, therefore I have done it, & not for your own righteousness. So you see, that ⟨p. 126⟩this is a condition the Lord will have observed in our calling upon him, that our hearts be humbled, that a man be little, and vile in his own eyes, that he come with a broken, and contrite heart, pliable to him in all things, ready to obey him; when the heart is so disposed, he gives grace, that is, he shows favour, he is ready to grant our requests.
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