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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. When the body is sleepy, and fit for nothing but to take its rest. A sleepy and sluggish temper, is a canker to eat out many sweet affections, Cant. 3. 1. By night upon 1my bed I sought him, but I found him not. Some Inter preters take occasion hence, to speak against late prayers.
2. Another unfit season is, when the heart is filled with worldly care and distractions, and the incumbrances of this present life; many men are guilty of this, they will so •log themselves with the cares of this life, that they cannot have a praying time free from them. Some men will ⟨p. 51⟩be down upon their knees, before the things of this world are out of their minds; and so they have no time to consider, or meditate, or to put the heart into a fit frame for that work. You know we are to attend upon the Lord without distraction, 1 Cor. 7. 35. It was the fault of those Jews in hearing, that when they came to hear 1the word, their hearts did go out after their covetousness, Ezek. 33. 31. That is another season unfit for prayer.2
2. Another unfit season is, when the heart is filled with worldly care and distractions, and the incumbrances of this present life; many men are guilty of this, they will so log themselves with the cares of this life, that they cannot have a praying time free from them. Some men will