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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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This being cleared we go on to assert that fore-mentioned Position, It's the duty of godly men to pray for others;1 Our Saviour doth suppose that in his Form of Prayer, Our Father, and he extends this, Mat. 5. even to our very Enemies that are Enemies for our godliness sake, persecuting and reviling us, and that though continuing in their wickedness; Thus Paul is thought to be converted by Stevens Prayer, while he was consenting to the stoning of that first Martyr; Stephen was praying that God would remove the stone from Pauls heart, yea, the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.1. exhorts, that supplications and prayers be put up for all men; That is, for all sorts of men, as the distribution doth evidence, yet this is no contrariety to Christs Example who would not pray for the world, for certainly he would not, so neither may we in that sense.
This being cleared we go on to assert that fore-mentioned Position, It's the duty of godly men to pray for others;1 Our Saviour doth suppose that in his Form of Praier, Our Father, and he extends this, Mat. 5. even to our very Enemies that are Enemies for our godlinesse sake, persecuting and reviling us, and that though continuing in their wickednesse; Thus Paul is thought to be converted by Stevens Praier, while he was consenting to the stoning of that first Martyr; Stephen was praying that God would remove the stone from Pauls heart, yea, the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.1. exhorts, that supplications and praiers be put up for all men; That is, for all sorts of men, as the distribution doth evidence, yet this is no contrariety to Christs Example who would not pray for the world, for certainly he would not, so neither may we in that sence.
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