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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. Show the reasons of the Doctrine.
1. Shew the reasons of the Doctrine.
2. I shall show, in what cases God may refuse to give his own people the things that they pray for.
2. I shall shew, in what cases God may refuse to give his own people the things that they pray for.
3. I shall show, how we may know, when God denies to hear our prayers, whether the denial be in mercy.
3. I shall shew, how we may know, when God denies to hear our prayers, whether the denial be in mercie.
Reas. The first particular is the reason, why God may, and doth sometimes deny to hear the prayers of his friends: And that is this. Because, God hath tied returns of prayer, not only to the qualification of the person, but also to the qualification of the duty; that the duty be performed, not only by a fit person, but also in a right way, in a right manner, to a right end. God doth not say, Let a godly man pray how he will, I will hear his prayers; that were the way to make him to be careless and remiss in the performance of duties. Therefore the Lord expects qualification of the duty, as well as of the person. God requires that duties be done with feeling, fervency, faith, fear and reverence; they must be done in a right manner.