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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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12. An heavenly Prayer must have an heavenly heart, that which pants after and delights in heavenly things, but Ps. 4.6. Many say, Who will show us any good? Every one can pray for earthly and temporal good things, for health, strength, peace, and outward plenty, but few with David, Lift thou up the light of thy countenance. In the Lords Prayer we are first to pray for those spiritual things that relate to Gods glory, before we are to ask for our temporal comforts; yea, while we pray for temporal mercies we are to do it in a heavenly manner, for this end, that we may be more instrumental to Gods glory, and be brought nearer to him; Difficile est erare, quia difficile est desiderare, said Aquinas. It is a very hard thing to desire heavenly things, and therefore as hard to pray for them; how happy then is it when the matter prayed for and the frame of the heart are both heavenly; Now like Christ he is gone up to the Mount, and prayeth alone, he is above all earthly things, alone with God himself.
12. An heavenly Praier must have an heavenly heart, that which pants after and delights in heavenly things, but Ps. 4.6. Many say, Who will shew us any good? Every one can pray for earthly and temporall good things, for health, strength, peace, and outward plenty, but few with David, Lift thou up the light of thy countenance. In the Lords Praier we are first to pray for those spirituall things that relate to Gods glory, before we are to ask for our temporall comforts; yea, while we pray for temporall mercies we are to do it in a heavenly manner, for this end, that we may be more instrumental to Gods glory, and be brought nearer to him; Difficile est erare, quia difficile est desiderare, said Aquinas. It is a very hard thing to desire heavenly things, and therefore as hard to pray for them; how happy then is it when the matter praied for and the frame of the heart are both heavenly; Now like Christ he is gone up to the Mount, and praieth alone, he is above all earthly things, alone with God himself.
- 12. An heavenly heart.