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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.
Again, the variety of occasions hinders us, every 1thing keeps us back; if a mans heart be cheerful, it is apt to delight in other things; if a mans heart be sad, on the other side; if it be a slight sadness, men are ready to drive it away with company, and with sports, and with doing other things, and if the sadness be great, we are swallowed up with anguish of spirit, and then any thing is easier then to pray, as you may see by Judas, it was easier for him to dispatch himself, then to go and call upon God; so it is with men, when they have excessive grief, when their an guish of heart is exceeding great: so that, whether a man hath a cheerful disposition, or a sad, whether the sadness be great or small, still you shall find a difficulty. If we be idle, & have ⟨p. 38⟩nothing to do, our hearts will be possest with vain thoughts, and, if we be full of business, that distracts us also, and indisposeth us, on the other side: so still there are impediments.
Again, the variety of occasions hinders vs, euery 1thing keepes vs back; if a mans heart be cheerfull, it is apt to delight in other things; if a mans heart be sad, on the other side; if it bee a slight sadnes, men are ready to driue it away with company, and with sports, and with doing other things, and if the sadnesse be great, we are swallowed vp with anguish of spirit, and then any thing is easier then to pray, as you may see by Iudas, it was easier for him to dispatch himselfe, then to goe and call vpon God; so it is with men, when they haue excessiue griefe, when their an guish of heart is exceeding great: so that, whether a man hath a cheerefull disposition, or a sad, whether the sadnes bee great or small, still you shall finde a difficultie. If we be idle, & haue ⟨p. 38⟩nothing to doe, our hearts will be possest with vaine thoughts, and, if we bee full of businesse, that distracts vs also, and indisposeth vs, on the other side: so still there are impediments.
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