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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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The best way hereunto, is the very naming of the difficulties to you, that you may know them, 1and make account of them; therefore you must consider this in general, that, indeed, it is not an easy thing to call upon God constantly: our misprision of the duty, our reckoning of it, that it is a more facile, and easy thing, then it is, makes us more to slight it, and causeth ⟨p. 37⟩us not to go about it with that intention, which otherwise we would, but consider a little what 2it is. The duty is very spiritual, and our hearts are carnal, and it is no easy thing to bring spiritual duties, and carnal hearts together.
The best way hereunto, is the very naming of the difficulties to you, that you may know them, 1and make account of them; therefore you must consider this in generall, that, indeede, it is not an easie thing to call vpon God constantly: our misprision of the dutie, our reckoning of it, that it is a more facile, and easie thing, then it is, makes vs more to slight it, and causeth