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The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven
The zealous Christian taking heaven by holy violence in several sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn for John Rothwell, 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.
1. Negatively. 2. Positively. 3. Negatively, Not because he is his friend.
The observation thence is this,
Doct. 2 That a state of friendship, or reconciliation with God, is not sufficient to assure a man that God will give returns to his prayers. Although a man must be brought into a state of, friendship and favour with God, before his, prayers can be heard: yet it is not a sufficient ground for a man to believe, that God will give him an answer of all his prayers. He will give unto him, not because ⟨p. 15⟩he is friend. So that a godly man may make many prayers, and yet God may not give any answer to his prayers.
Doct. 2 That a state of friendship, or reconciliation with God, is not sufficient to assure a man that God will give returnes to his prayers. Although a man must be brought into a state of, friendship and favour with God, before his, prayers can be heard: yet it is not a sufficient ground for a man to believe, that God will give him an answer of all his prayers. He will give unto him, not because ⟨p. 15⟩he is friend. So that a godly man may make many prayers, and yet God may not give any answer to his prayers.