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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumes lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumns lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. Whether it be sinful to pray for afflictions, as sometimes some will be ready to do?
Quest. Whether it be sinfull to pray for afflictions, as somtimes some will be ready to do?
Answ. To that I answer. first, Take it absolutely considered, we may not pray, that God would afflict us; because affliction ⟨p. 278⟩is in its self materially an evil thing, and a fruit of the curse, therefore we may not (I say) absolutely pray for it: but thus far we may pray for afflictions disjunctively, conditionally comparatively.
Answ. To that I answer. frist, Take it absolutely considered, we may not pray, that God would afflict us; because afflione ⟨p. 278⟩is in its self materially an evil thing, and a fruit of the curse, therefore we may not (I say) absolutely pray for it: but thus far we may pray for afflictions disjunctively, conditionally comparatively.
Disjunctively, thus, Lord, either grant unto me a sanctified use of such a mercy, or otherwise let me rather be without it; let me have a sanctified use of my sickness, or otherwise let my sickness be continued to me; thus now you may pray for continuing in sickness.
Disjunctively, thus, Lord, either grant unto me a sanctified use of such a mercie, or otherwise let me rather be without it; let me have a sanctified use of my siknes, or otherwise let my sickness be continued to me; thus now you may pray for continuing in sickness.