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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.
Help. 6 6. If you would get this holy importunity, then you must store your hearts with fullness of matter, when thou goest to prayer; It is emptiness of Spirit that causeth deadness of heart.
Help. 6 6. If you would get this holy importunitie, then you must store your hearts with fulnesse of matter, when thou goest to prayer; It is emptinesse of Spirit that causeth deadnesse of heart.
Help. 7 7. If you would get this holy importunity, bemoan the deadness and dullness of thy heart. This was the course that holy David took, Psal. 38. 9. My desires oh Lord are before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. So it was the practise of the Church, Isa. 63. 17. O Lord why 1hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our hearts from thy fear. So it was the way that Ephraim went in, Jer. 31. 218. I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself. Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke.—
Help. 7 7. If you would get this holy importunitie, bemoane the deadnesse and dulnesse of thy heart. This was the course that holy David tooke, Psal. 38. 9. My desires oh Lord are before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. So it was the practise of the Church, Isa. 63. 17. O Lord why