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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.
4. If you pray but cursorily and carelessly, 1then God may deny you. He that prays coldly, doth, as it were, entreat God to give him a denial. God promiseth to be found, if we seek him with our whole heart: But if we be careless and regardless our selves, how can we expect that God should regard us?
4. If you pray but cursorily and carelesly, 1then God may deny you. He that prayes coldly, doth, as it were, increat God to give him a denial. God promiseth to be found, if we seek him with our whole heart: But if we be careless and regardless our selves, how can we expect that God should regard us?
- 1Qui frigide orat, docet negare.
So much for answer to that question, In what cases God may deny his peoples prayers. This is the second thing.
3. The third particular, is another Case of conscience. And it is this.1
- 1Quest. Denials of prayer, when •• mercy?