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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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I, but you will say to me, if this be required, 1who shall be heard in his prayers? for who can say his heart is pure, and his hands are innocent? and if this be required, that we must lift up holy, and pure hearts, or else we shall not be accepted; what comfort shall we have in calling upon the Lord, at any time?
I, but you will say to me, if this be required, 1who shall be heard in his prayers? for who can say his heart is pure, and his hands are innocent? and if this be required, that we must lift vp holy, and pure hearts, or else we shall not be accepted; what comfort shall we haue in calling vpon the Lord, at any time?
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To this I answer, that to have a pure heart, 1is not to be free from sin, and from da•y failings, (for so indeed none should have a pure heart) but pureness of heart, holiness of heart is, to have our hearts sprinkled from •n evil conscience, and to have our bo•tes washed with pure water, that is, to be purified before the Lord, is nothing else, but to have such an habitual disposition, which makes a man ready to wash himself still, though he be still spotted with sin. So that this is, the disposition of a holy man, if a man that draws near to the Lord with a pure heart; though he be still spotted, and polluted, and defiled, yet he hath an habitual disposition, he hath a principle within, he hath a new nature within, that is still working out that impurity, and washing it away; though still he he•e opposed, and assaulted, & tempted, and sometimes foiled, yet still he resists it, and fights against it;