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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Partly from himself.
Partly from himselfe.
And partly from us.
And partly from vs.
1. From himself, though he be willing to bestow 1mercies upon us, yet he will have us ask his leave before he doth it. As, you know▪ fathers do with their children, though they intend to 2bestow such things upon them, as are needful, yet they will have their children to ask it; & as it is a common thing among men, though they be willing a man should pass through their ground 3yet they will have leave asked, because by that ⟨p. 12⟩means the property is acknowledged, otherwise it would be taken as a common high way, so the Lord will have his servants come and ask, that they may acknowledge the property he hath in those gifts he bestows upon them: Indeed, otherwise we would forget in what tenure we hold these blessings we enjoy, and what service we owe to the Lord, as you know, there is a homage 4due to the Lord, that the Lord might be acknowledged; so the Lord will have this duty of prayer performed that we may acknowledge him, that we hold a•l of him, and that we might remember the service that we ought to do to him, to rise and go at his command, that is, to do his service, which we would be ready to forget, if we were not accustomed to the duty of calling on him.