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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.
I come now to the second thing, and that is, a case of conscience: it is this; In 1what Cases may God refuse to give his people the things they pray for? I answer.
- 1Quest. When doth God deny requests. Answ. Psal 66. 18.
1. In case you indulge any sin in the heart, Psal. 66. 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear my prayer. Sin which is in thine heart, by thine indulgence and approbation, doth provoke God, that he will not give an answer to thy prayers
2. In case thou dost seek for any mercy from God, to be fuel for thy sin and lust, James 4. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because 1ye ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. So the mother of Zebedee's children, Matth. 20. 21. She said to Christ, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right 2hand, the other on thy left in thy kingdom. Now this was an ambitious desire; for she showed Christ would have reigned upon earth, as an earthly King, and she desired that they might be next him, as he sat upon the Throne. Therefore Christ said, You know not what you ask. Christ would not give any answer to her request; he would not gratify her pride and ambition.