A37049:389
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
3dly. After Prayer both Speaker and Joiners fail. 1. That they watch not over their hearts, but soon return to other things, as if then they might take liberty. 2. Not waiting for an answer, nor observing whether Prayers be answered or ⟨p. 82⟩not. 3. Not being thankful for Answers when they come: Nor 4. Entreating and pressing for an answer if it be delayed. 5. Not reflecting on our failings, whether in speaking or joining. 6. Not remembering what we have uttered in Prayer but presently returning to a carriage that is very unlike those things we have been speaking before Him. 7. Not ke •ping up a frame for new opportunities of Prayer. 8. Not pressing after a constant walk with God betwixt occasions of Prayer. 9. Resting on Prayer after we have done, and thinking something of it if we seem to have been helped to Pray. 10. Carnally heartless and displeased, if it hath been otherwise. 11. Not being humbled for the sinfulness and defects of our Prayers. 12. Not having recourse by Faith to the Blood of sprinkling for pardon of these sinful defects.
3dly. After Prayer both Speaker and Joyners fail. 1. That they watch not over their hearts, but soon return to other things, as if then they might take liberty. 2. Not waiting for an answer, nor observing whether Prayers be answered or ⟨p. 82⟩not. 3. Not being thankful for Answers when they come: Nor 4. Intreating and pressing for an answer if it be delayed. 5. Not reflecting on our failings, whether in speaking or joyning. 6. Not remembring what we have uttered in Prayer but presently returning to a carriage that is very unlike those things we have been speaking before Him. 7. Not ke •ping up a frame for new opportunities of Prayer. 8. Not pressing after a constant walk with God betwixt occasions of Prayer. 9. Resting on Prayer after we have done, and thinking something of it if we seem to have been helped to Pray. 10. Carnally heartless and displeased, if it hath been otherwise. 11. Not being humbled for the sinfulness and defects of our Prayers. 12. Not having recourse by Faith to the Blood of sprinkling for pardon of these sinful defects.