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A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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.
4. A fourth act of faith, is to believe that what we have asked according to Gods will, he will certainly grant, Matth. 11.24. So far as you have asked with submission to his will, so far will he grant according to your ⟨p. 418⟩wills, and though he defer, yet make account your prayers are heard, that he will either grant what you ask, or what he knows will be better for you, and as welcome to you, for God looks not so much at the petition as at the end you aim at in opportuning such a blessing, and that he will grant even when he seems to deny us our petitions, Heb. 5 9. Christ was heard in that he prayed for. Why, how was he heard? did he not drink of the cup he prayed against? Yes, yet he was heard:
4. A fourth act of faith, is to believe that what we have asked according to Gods will, he will certainly grant, Matth. 11.24. So far as you have asked with submission to his will, so far will he grant according to your ⟨p. 418⟩wills, and though he deferre, yet make account your prayers are heard, that he will either grant what you ask, or what he knows will be better for you, and as welcome to you, for God looks not so much at the petition as at the end you aim at in opportuning such a blessing, and that he will grant even when he seems to deny us our petitions, Heb. 5 9. Christ was heard in that he prayed for. Why, how was he heard? did he not drink of the cup he prayed against? Yes, yet he was heard:
1. Christs will was that his Fathers will might be fulfilled, not his; in this he was heard.