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The invaluable price of an immortal soul showing the vanity of most people in…The invaluable price of an immortal soul shewing the vanity of most people in…
The invaluable price of an immortal soul showing the vanity of most people in taking care for the body, but neglect their duty as to the preservation of their never-dying souls : with advice to secure sinners to examine themselves before it be too late, that when death shall come to separate their souls from their bodies, they may be in a condition to welcome death for that happy change which all prepared Christians will ever rejoice in : very necessary for all people to read and consider who would willingly be accounted true Christians : with large admonition to prayer as a duty most incumbent upon all who desire to obtain everlasting life through Christ Jesus.The invaluable price of an immortal soul shewing the vanity of most people in taking care for the body, but neglect their duty as to the preservation of their never-dying souls : with advice to secure sinners to examine themselves before it be too late, that when death shall come to separate their souls from their bodies, they may be in a condition to welcome death for that happy change which all prepared Christians will ever rejoyce in : very necessary for all people to read and consider who would willingly be accounted true Christians : with large admonition to prayer as a duty most incumbant upon all who desire to obtain everlasting life through Christ Jesus.
London: printed for J. Clark, 1681
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Prayers may well be counted and and called sallies of the soul for more Grace, and neglect of them can be no less than provocation, it grieves God to see that he should be so merciful and gracious as to let his Door stand open, and that he should assure us of a Welcome at any time, and that we should be so unkind as not to visit him with our prayers, which should be looked upon as Embassies to his Divine Majesty, he cannot but take this very unkindly.
Prayers may well be counted and and called sallies of the soul for more Grace, and neglect of them can be no less than provocation, it grieves God to see that he should be so merciful and gracious as to let his Door stand open, and that he should assure us of a VVelcome at any time, and that we should be so unkind as not to visit him with our prayers, which should be looked upon as Embassies to his Divine Majesty, he cannot but take this very unkindly.
Consider the Reward which is promised to prayer, you have Christs word for it, for he saith, When thou Prayest, enter into thy Closet, and when thou hast shut thy Door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall Reward thee openly.
But notwithstanding this so sweet promise, how is this Duty by some omitted, and by others quite deserted. Satan is an utter Enemy to prayer, and studies out many ways to put by prayer, he persuades some that if they do pray, it will be but Hypocritically: ⟨image 10⟩others that it is not a convenient time, for some worldly business is to be dispatched, or any fallacy to put by this Holy Duty, for the Devil doth seek and contrive all the ways that possibly can be used by him to entrap and ensnare Mans soul, on purpose to make it as miserable as himself: But Man was Created for a more Nobler design then to be led Captive by the devil, and prayer is the main instrument to avoid all his allurements.