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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.
For 1. It may be those that thou apprehendest to pray better then thou, are of longer standing, and larger experience in the ways of God then thou art. God ⟨p. 72⟩doth not expect any more from a man, but according to that measure of grace, that he gives the man, and according to his growth and standing in grace. Paul was not at all discouraged, because Epinetus was the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ, Rom. 16. 5. nor at Andronicus and Junia, that were of note among the Apostles, 1and in Christ before him, verse 7. And if Paul was not discouraged, why shouldest 2thou be discouraged to see other Christians outstrip thee, it may be they are of longer standing then thou.
For 1. It may be those that thou apprehendest to pray better then thou, are of longer standing, and larger experience in the wayes of God then thou art. God ⟨p. 72⟩doth not expect any more from a man, but according to that measure of grace, that he gives the man, and according to his growth and standing in grace. Paul was not at all discouraged, because Epinetus was the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ, Rom. 16. 5. nor at Andronicus and Junia, that were of note among the Apostles, 1and in Christ before him, verse 7. And if Paul was not discouraged, why shouldest 2thou be discouraged to see other Christians outstrip thee, it may be they are of longer standing then thou.