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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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2. Let me appeal to the experience of praying Christians, Ministers and others; when we have been called forth in our Ministerial work, or at other times to pray; that was the work lay before us: when our hearts have been oppressed with some temptation, our spirits quite down, dead, and flat; the thoughts of our duty a terror to us, because we found no ability to it; we could not tell what-to say unto the Lord, we wanted words, we wanted hearts, we wanted every thing, but to our work we must go, we could not avoid it. Well, when we have been entered into our work, have we not found a supply afforded, our tongues untied, our hearts enlarged; words and matter have come flowing in; such sentences, words and matter as were never in our minds before, yet very apt and pertinent; melting and warming, that the best prayers ever we made have been at such times, when we have gone most pressed with the sense of our own inability? though it be not always so (the Spirit is a free agent), yet at these times, whence could it come but from this good Spirit? Shall he lose his glory?
2. Let me appeal to the experience of praying Christians, Ministers and others; when we have been called forth in our Ministerial work, or at other times to pray; that was the work lay before us: when our hearts have been oppressed with some temptation, our spirits quite down, dead, and flat; the thoughts of our duty a terrour to us, because we found no ability to it; we could not tell what-to say unto the Lord, we wanted words, we wanted hearts, we wanted every thing, but to our work we must go, we could not avoid it. Well, when we have been entred into our work, have we not found a supply afforded, our tongues untyed, our hearts enlarged; words and matter have come flowing in; such sentences, words and matter as were never in our minds before, yet very apt and pertinent; melting and warming, that the best prayers ever we made have been at such times, when we have gone most pressed with the sense of our own inability? though it be not always so (the Spirit is a free agent), yet at these times, whence could it come but from this good Spirit? Shall he lose his glory?
3. I thought that praying men use before-hand to pray for that good Spirit, for a presence of Grace, (as to the spiritual manner of our work) and a presence of assistance as to the matter of our work, being conscious to our selves of the truth of the sayings of that great Apostle,