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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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Or else there is 2. a vocal Prayer, when our desires are manifested by outward signs of words, and thus Christs prayer here is a vocal prayer, neither may such kind of praying be thought needless,1 for we do not use words as if God needed these signs, in which sense Elijah derided Baals Priests, bidding them cry aloud, it may be Baal was asleep, or in a journey, 1 King. 8.27. but hereby to excite and stir up our affections, for the soul and body do mutually help each other, and partly because we are to glorify God with our body, and with our soul, and lastly what is strongly in the heart cannot but ⟨p. 8⟩empty it self in words: Hence are those expressions, I cried unto the Lord with a loud voice, so that a vocal prayer is commanded as well as a mental, only in that we must remember there ought to be a threefold attention, first unto God the object unto whom we pray that our thoughts be not distracted. 2.2 To the matter that it be lawful and according to Gods will. 3. To the words, that they be sober, grave and decent in so religious a duty. And thus much from that expression, Christ said, Father.
Or else there is 2. a vocall Praier, when our desires are manifested by outward signs of words, and thus Christs praier here is a vocall praier, neither may such kinde of praying be thought needlesse,1 for we do not use words as if God needed these signs, in which sence Eliah derided Baals Priests, bidding them cry aloud, it may be Baal was asleep, or in a journey, 1 King. 8.27. but hereby to excite and stir up our affections, for the soul and body do mutually help each other, and partly because we are to glorifie God with our body, and with our soul, and lastly what is strongly in the heart cannot but ⟨p. 8⟩empty it self in words: Hence are those expressions, I cried unto the Lord with a loud voice, so that a vocall praier is commanded as well as a mentall, only in that we must remember there ought to be a threefold attention, first unto God the object unto whom we pray that our thoughts be not distracted. 2.