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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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Beloved, it is nothing but a sequestring, or separating 1of any thing from a common use, and appropriating it to God alone, that is holiness. You know, whatsoever was holy to the Lord, in the Temple, or otherwise, whether it were holy vessels, or holy men, as the Priests, it was separated from all other uses, and made particular to him, and to his service. Now, the heart of a man is holy then, when it is withdrawn from all things else, and particular to the Lord alone. As a chaste wife is to her husband, whose affections are 2bestowed upon him, and no other person else; so when the heart is to the Lord alone, when all the affections are intent upon him, and bestowed upon him, and upon none else, this is to have the heart holy to him. So that, now he that will have an eye upon credit, upon vain glory, upon wealth, upon his lusts, upon any thing besides the Lord, that the heart is wedded to it, that he bestows any part of that conjugal affection upon it, that should be wholly the Lords, this man is an unholy man, his heart is not holy: •or it is not sequestered from other things, and consecrated to him alone: for that is to be holy.
Beloved, it is nothing but a sequestring, or seperating 1of any thing from a common vse, and appropriating it to God alone, that is holinesse. You know, whatsoever was holy to the Lord, in the Temple, or otherwise, whether it were holy vessels, or holy men, as the Priests, it was seperated from all other vses, and made particular to him, and to his service. Now, the heart of a man is holy then, when it is withdrawne from all things else, and particular to the Lord alone. As a chast wife is to her husband, whose affections are