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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Sermon 41: Of Praying both for the Godly and the Wicked, With the Reasons and Motives thereof.
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It's not only our duty to pray for our selves but for others also;1 Some are said to Question Whether it be lawful to pray for any one man in particular, because (say they) He that prayeth in the due qualifications of speeding prayer,2 doth as effectually succeed in tbat Duty, as if he had been praying for any particular, But this can no ways hold, It's a Duty sometimes to pray in particular for some persons, as the Disciples did for Peter when he was in prison; And Paul many times desireth the prayers of the Church for his own particular: A Prayer poured out for some particular person may have more love, fervency, 3and faith in it then when for the general, especially their particular necessities are then commended to God, which would not be in the general.
It's not only our duty to pray for our selves but for others also;1 Some are said to Question Whether it be lawfull to pray for any one man in particular, because (say they) He that praieth in the due qualifications of speeding praier,2 doth as effectually succeed in tbat Duty, as if he had been praying for any particular, But this can no waies hold, It's a Duty sometimes to pray in particular for some persons, as the Disciples did for Peter when he was in prison; And Paul many times desireth the praiers of the Church for his own particular: A Praier poured out for some particular person may have more love, fervency, 3and faith in it then when for the general, especially their particular necessities are then commended to God, which would not be in the general.
- 1Consider these particulars.
- 2I. It's not our duty only to pray for our selves but for others also.