A35473:1665
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 17
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Secondly, Pure prayer must be right in the matter of it, as well as the object; if we pray for that which is unlawful, our prayer must needs be unlawful; as it is a sin to do any thing which God commands not, so it is a sin to ask any thing which God allows not. God hath set special bounds to three things.
Secondly, Pure prayer must be right in the matter of it, as well as the object; if we pray for that which is unlawfull, our prayer must needs be unlawfull; as it is a sin to doe any thing which God commands not, so it is a sin to aske any thing which God allows not. God hath set speciall bounds to three things.
First, To our Faith, he teacheth us what to believe. Secondly, To our actions, he teacheth us what to do. Thirdly, To our prayers, he teacheth us what to desire.
First, To our Faith, he teacheth us what to beleeve. Secondly, To our actions, he teacheth us what to doe. Thirdly, To our prayers, he teacheth us what to desire.
We may make enlarged prayers, but we are not left at large in prayer. The square or rule of prayer, is the will of God (1 John 5.14.) And this is the confidence that we have in him, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. The will of God is the rule, not only of things to be done by us, but of things which we are to ask God, to do for us: As man naturally would rather do, so he would rather have his own will, then the will of God. Man would fain be his own carver, but God will not let him: It pleases man better to go two mile upon his own errand, then one upon Gods errand; and it pleases man better to have any one thing of his own choosing, then two of Gods choosing; but it should not.