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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.
2. In case thou art full in expression, but empty in affection. There are many men whose words do outslip their hearts, and their expressions exceed their affections. So did they, Isa. 29. 13. For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me; but have removed their heart far from me. Some men are like boiling water, when it boils fastest, and boils out of the top, then there is nothing at the bottom; All their prayers are at the top, in their mouth, and not in their heart and affections. ⟨p. 65⟩Their affections do not carry equipage with their words.
2. In case thou art full in expression, but emptie in affection. There are many men whose words doe outslip their hearts, and their expressions exceed their affections. So did they, Isa. 29. 13. For as much as this people draw neare mee with their mouth, and with their lips doe honour me; but have removed their heart far from mee. Some men are like boyling water, when it boiles fastest, and boiles out of the top, then there is nothing at the bottome; All their prayers are at the top, in their mouth, and not in their heart and affections. ⟨p. 65⟩Their affections doe not carrie equipage with their words.
3. In case thy importunate expressions be more used in company, then in secret, it is a sign thou haft not this holy importunity, but it comes from popular applause. It is not so with the people of God. Christ speaks to his people, Cant. 8. 13. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice, cause me to hear it; to show, that they should not only pray, and be importunate when the companions hearken to their voice, when they are in company, but even then when no eye sees them, when no ear hears them, when none is present, but God alone; God expects that we should pray in secret, as well as in company.