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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.
So much for the Reasons; I come now to answer some objections.
Object. 1 But some may say, What privilege hath a godly man more then a wicked man, to have more to be given him then he doth ask, seeing we read of wicked men that they do prosper in the world, and have more then heart can wish? Psal. 73. I answer.1
Object. 1 But some may say, What priviledge hath a godly man more then a wicked man, to have more to be given him then he doth ask, seeing we read of wicked men that they do prosper in the world, and have more then heart can wish? Psal. 73. I answer.1
- 1Psal 73.
Answ. 1 1. It is true in temporal mercies: God may give wicked men more then the godly, and more then their heart can wish; but God doth not give them spiritual mercies: As we may see in Balaam: God gave Balaam honours and riches, but Balaam cried our, O that I might dye the death of the righteous, This God did not grant him. So, many wicked men do say in a general way, Lord ⟨p. 81⟩pardon my sins; God doth not hear them. It may be a child of God, may ask of God temporal mercies, and God will give him spiritual mercies; this is more then he did ask, and that much better then he gives to wicked men.