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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. God doth not distribute gifts and graces to all alike, God hath not appointed ⟨p. 74⟩that all men should grow in grace alike. To this purpose I may apply, Nehem. 11. 17. Mattaniah the son of Micah, 1the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammuz—the third. God doth not intend that all should be alike in grace, or gifts; God hath his first, second, and third; one may fall short of another, and yet all have truth of grace, yea, all have some growth in grace. Another may pray better, and yet thou pray well; Another may pray more affectionately, and yet thou pray as acceptably in the sight of God: so much for Answer to the first reason.
4. God doth not distribute gifts and graces to all alike, God hath not appointed ⟨p. 74⟩that all men should grow in grace alike. To this purpose I may apply, Nehem. 11. 17. Mattaniah the son of Micha, 1the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph was the principall to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammuz—the third. God doth not intend that all should be alike in grace, or gifts; God hath his first, second, and third; one may fall short of another, and yet all have truth of grace, yea, all have some growth in grace. Another may pray better, and yet thou pray well; Another may pray more affectionately, and yet thou pray as acceptably in the sight of God: so much for Answer to the first reason.