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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
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6. Consider this that Gods people have prayed and waited a long time, before God hath given them the mercy they have asked, before God hath given them an answer of their prayers. God promised Abraham a son, that from him should proceed such an one, in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, that his seed should be multiplied as the stars in the firmament; and yet it was fifteen years between the time of Gods making him that promise, and the accomplishment of it. So likewise you find it in Zachariah and Elizabeth, they prayed for a Child at the first beginning of their marriage, now God did hear their cries and prayers; yet he did not give them a return till they were old and stricken in years. So likewise it was with the Church, Lament. 3. vers. 8. Also when I cry and shout be shutteth out my prayer. And ver. 44. Thou hast 1covered thy self with a cloud, that our prayers 2should not pass through. So also it was, Hab. 1. 32. O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? It was also the complaint of holy David, Psal. 22. 1, 2. My God, my God, why 4hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God I cry in the day time and thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent.
6. Consider this that Gods people have prayed and waited a long time, before God hath given them the mercy they have asked, before God hath given them an answer of their prayers. God promised Abraham a son, that from him should proceed such an one, in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, that his seed should be multiplyed as the starres in the firmament; and yet it was fifteene yeares betweene the time of Gods making him that promise, and the accomplishment of it. So likewise you finde it in Zacbariab and Elizabeth, they prayed for a Childe at the first beginning of their marriage, now God did heare their cryes and prayers; yet he did not give them a returne till they were old and stricken in yeares. So likewise it was with the Church,