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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.
LUKE 11. 8. Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him, &c.
1IN the first place, let me draw some Inferences or Corollaries from what hath been insisted upon.
- 1VIII. SERMON.
Corol∣lary 1 1. Returns to prayer are not given for the works sake, but for the persons sake. Though the matter of thy prayer may be good, yet if thou art not a good man, thou shalt not be accepted. God had respect first to Abel, & then to his offering. Psal. 34. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth— 1The person must be in a state of favour, before the duty can be accepted.
Corol∣lary 1 1. Returnes to prayer are not given for the works sake, but for the persons sake. Though the matter of thy prayer may be good, yet if thou art not a good man, thou shalt not be accepted. God had respect first to Abel, & then to his offering. Psal. 34. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth— 1The person must be in a state of favour, before the dutie can be accepted.