A20766:1825
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded
The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propounded : more largely & clearly handled and explained / published by John Downame ...The summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded : more largly & cleerely handled and explaned / published by John Downame ...
London: printed by Willi, 1625
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.
Secondly, That we may pray as we ought, the aSpirit helpeth our infirmity, and teacheth us to pray according unto God, with groans and sighs that cannot be expressed. But this the Worldling is far from, to whom such sighs and groanings of the Spirit are as strange and unheard of, as is the bSpirit it self the Author of it.
Secondly, That we may pray as we ought, the aSpirit helpeth our infirmitie, and teacheth vs to pray according vnto God, with grones and sighes that cannot bee expressed. But this the Worldling is farre from, to whom such sighes and gronings of the Spirit are as strange and vnheard of, as is the bSpirit it selfe the Authour of it.
Thirdly, Gods Children in all their necessities address themselves to him, and seek for good things at the hands of their heavenly Father through Christ; the wicked howsoever with cBalaam they may break forth into wishes and woulds, Let my soul dye the death of the Righteous, and my latter end be like to him; have neither the face nor the heart to go to God by humble Prayer, as David in the like case did,