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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, consider it is thy buckler, prayer is the helmet that keeps thee safe: when a man neglects 1it, when he ceaseth to go to God by prayer, when he once shows himself to be a stranger to the Lord by neglecting this duty, then he is out of the pales of his protection, like the conies that go out of their burrows: for so is the Lord to those that pray, The Lord is a protection to those that call upon his name. The very calling upon his name is a running under Gods wings, as it were, that is a putting our selves under his shadow, but when thou neglectest that, thou wanderest abroad from him. Now do we not need protection from outward dangers, from day to day? do we not need to be kept from the inward danger of sin and temptation? surely prayer is one part of the spiritual Armour, as we see in the 6. of the Ephes. In the complete armour of God, prayer is reckoned up 2the last, as that that buckles up all the rest, saith the Apostle, Continue in prayer, and watch to it with perseverance. And you have the more reason to do it, because it is not only a part of this armour, but it enables you to use all the rest, To use the word, and to use faith: for prayer stirs them up all. What is it to have Armour, and not to have it ready? now prayer makes it ready. Therefore you ⟨image 15⟩see Christ prescribes the same rule in the 26. […] 4. Pray that ye enter not into tentation, as if that were the way to secure us, and to shelter us, and 3to keep us safe from falling in to temptation. It is a thing I would advise you to, to pray and to seek to the Lord continually. Therefore, if we should use only this reason to you, to be constant in this duty, because it is for your safety, it were sufficient. You know when a man is as a City whose walls are broken down, when he lies exposed to temptation, he is in a dangerous case. So I may use this Dilemma, to you if you have a good disposition, if you think thus I hope I am well enough; I hope my heart is in a temper good enough, I am not now exposed to any temptation, I fear nothing, make this argument against thy self; why do I neglect so good a gale, if my heart be so well disposed to pray, why 4