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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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Private Prayer is in a manner a secret talking with God, and who would not be glad to have such blessed Communion with him, who only can make us eternally happy, or everlasting miserable: it is somewhat Saint like to desire private Conference betwixt God and the soul.
Private Prayer is in a manner a secret talking with God, and who would not be glad to have such blessed Communion with him, who onely can make us eternally happy, or everlasting miserable: it is somewhat Saint like to desire private Conference betwixt God and the soul.
But let not the Devil so blind your Eyes, neither as to think that the uttering a parcel of good and rhetorical expressions after any manner of way or formality, will be taken for prayer with God: No, that will not do, for you must pray ardently, affectionately, ⟨image 11⟩sincerely, zealously, earnestly, and also constantly: and if you would have your prayers answered, you must wait with patience, for Gods time is the best and fittest time to answer prayer in, for he knows best when and how to answer us, and what is fittest for us to enjoy: but many there are, who because that their prayers and petitions are not answered presently according to their expectations, do presently revolt from their custom of prayer, thinking that because God doth not suddenly answer them, he doth not take any care of them: when alas poor souls, if they did but remain constant and fervent in their devotions, God hath promised to be heard by them, and that he will aid and succour them according to their necessities.
But let not the Devil so blind your Eyes, neither as to think that the uttering a parcel of good and rhetorical expressions after any manner of way or formality, will be taken for prayer with God: No, that will not do, for you must pray ardently, affectionately, ⟨image 11⟩sincerely, zealously, earnestly, and also constantly: and if you would have your prayers ansuered, you must wait with patience, for Gods time is the best and fittest time to answer prayer in, for he knows best when and how to answer us, and what is fittest for us to enjoy: but many there are, who because that their prayers and petitions are not ansuered presently according to their expectations, do presently revolt from their custome of prayer, thinking that because God doth not suddenly ansuer them, he doth not take any care of them: when alas poor souls, if they did but remain constant and fervent in their devotions, God hath promised to be heard by them, and that he will aid and succour them according to their necessities.