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a/src/0054.pm b/src/0054.pm index 5cc7554..479a10c 100644 --- a/src/0054.pm +++ b/src/0054.pm @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ preached unto us according as he has commanded, and in the simplicity thereof, if so be we hear it not as it becomes us? or what, albeit these petitions that we put up be lawful, and warranted by him, if so be we put them not up as it becomes? Princes and great men will not be content that petitions and supplications be put up to them, whilkwhich are not according to their will, both in matter and in manner; should we not then take heed that our supplications to that great King be right, both in matter and in manner? Therefore learn to pray to God in faith, in constancy, and in earnestness; and then we may say @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ confidently, as David says, ◊ref{Ps.141.2}, "That our prayers shall be before the Lord as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as the evening sacrifice." There was never any incense that was offered, under the law, in the morning, nor no sacrifice that was offered in the evening, more acceptable to God than thy prayer shall be, when it is offered up in faith for these things whilkwhich are commanded: and [if thou] prays in earnestness and constancy, then thou may resolve that what thou seeks shall be found. And although, as the pillar of incense did not stand still continually, but was blown to and fro, and did
a/src/0054.pm b/src/0054.pm index 4344954..5cc7554 100644 --- a/src/0054.pm +++ b/src/0054.pm @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ of the first establishing of the gospel into the world, that they continued, or endured, in prayers and supplications unto God; because it is no small matter for to endure in prayers and supplications. It contains two things, 1. It contains fervency or earnestness, for the word has a certain strength in it. 2. It contains constancy. Divide ◊scottish{thir#these|those}these two, and then prayer is ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an easy matter. For the first, who is there who will not be zealous for a while in prayer? but incontinent they fall aiF it again: and again, it is ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an easy thing to be constant in prayer, where there is no earnestness. And so fervency and falling back in prayer may be together; and slowness and slackness in prayer and perseverance may be joined together; but to make this conjunction,---to be
a/src/0054.pm b/src/0054.pm index 4b4a092..4344954 100644 --- a/src/0054.pm +++ b/src/0054.pm @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ of the first establishing of the gospel into the world, that they continued, or endured, in prayers and supplications unto God; because it is no small matter for to endure in prayers and supplications. It contains two things, 1. It contains fervency or earnestness, for the word has a certain strength in it. 2. It contains constancy. Divide thir◊scottish{thir#these|those} two, and then prayer is ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} easy matter. For the first, who is there who will not be zealous for a while in prayer? but incontinent they fall aiF it again: and again, it is ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} easy thing to be constant in prayer, where there is no earnestness. And so fervency and falling back in prayer may be together; and slowness and slackness in prayer and perseverance may be joined together; but to make this conjunction,---to be @@ -27,18 +27,18 @@ supplications be put up to them, whilk are not according to their will, both in matter and in manner; should we not then take heed that our supplications to that great King be right, both in matter and in manner? Therefore learn to pray to God in faith, in constancy, and in earnestness; and then we may say confidently, as David says, ◊ref{Ps.141.2}, "That our prayers sallshall be before the Lord as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as the evening sacrifice." There was never any incense that was offered, under the law, in the morning, nor no sacrifice that was offered in the evening, more acceptable to God than thy prayer sallshall be, when it is offered up in faith for these things whilk are commanded: and [if thou] prays in earnestness and constancy, then thou may resolve that what thou seeks sallshall be found. And although, as the pillar of incense did not stand still continually, but was blown to and fro, and did agitate, yet still the smoke of the incense ascended upward, and was acceptable; so albeit thou be tosted (tossed) to and fro thus with divers afflictions, yet if thou pray thus to God, thy prayers sallshall ascend up to heaven: and when they sallshall ascend, then we may be sure that we sallshall receive a comfortable answer, both for the refreshing of our souls, and also for continuing the light of the gospel, in the purity thereof. And therefore let us now fall down before the Lord our God, and seek unto him thus, that so he may
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[LinkIt is a very notable testimony that the apostles and these who were believers in the time of the primitive kirk received, when it is said of them at the time of the first establishing of the gospel into the world, that they continued, or endured, in prayers and supplications unto God; because it is no small matter for to endure in prayers and supplications. It contains two things, 1. It contains fervency or earnestness, for the word has a certain strength in it. 2. It contains constancy. Divide thir two, and then prayer is ane easy matter. For the first, who is there who will not be zealous for a while in prayer? but incontinent they fall aiF it again: and again, it is ane easy thing to be constant in prayer, where there is no earnestness. And so fervency and falling back in prayer may be together; and slowness and slackness in prayer and perseverance may be joined together; but to make this page on Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/sermonsprayerspu00hend/page/283/mode/1up)
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PREFACE. 283conjunction,---to be fervent and constant in prayer, it is no easy matter. Surely, except we have both these, (and these who has faith has them both, and according to the measure of faith so will the measure of these be), there is no possibility for us to attain our desires from God. And therefore when we pray to God at any time, let us take heed what we pray for to God; but even also take heed how we pray: and in the hearing of the word, let us not only take heed what we hear, but let us also take heed how we hear. For what, albeit the word of God be preached unto us according as he has commanded, and in the simplicity thereof, if so be we hear it not as it becomes us? or what, albeit these petitions that we put up be lawful, and warranted by him, if so be we put them not up as it becomes? Princes and great men will not be content that petitions and supplications be put up to them, whilk are not according to their will, both in matter and in manner; should we not then take heed that our supplications to that great King be right, both in matter and in manner? Therefore learn to pray to God in faith, in constancy, and in earnestness; and then we may say confidently, as David says, Psalm cxli.,* ¢ That◊ref{Ps.141.2}, "That our prayers sall be before the Lord as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as the evening sacrifice." There was never any incense that was offered, under the law, in the morning, nor no sacrifice that was offered in the evening, more acceptable to God than thy prayer sall be, when it is offered up in faith for these things whilk are commanded: and [if thou] prays in earnestness and constancy, then thou may resolve that what thou seeks sall be found. And although, as the pillar of incense did not stand still continually, but was blown to and fro, and did agitate, yet still the smoke of the incense ascended upward, and was acceptable; so albeit thou be tosted (tossed) to and fro thus with divers afflictions, yet if thou pray thus to God, thy prayers sall ascend up to heaven: and when they sall ascend, then we may be sure that we sall receive a comfortable answer, both for the refreshing of our souls, and also for continuing the light of the gospel, in the purity thereof. And therefore let us now fall down before the Lord our God, and seek unto him thus, that so he may be found of us, etc.* Verse 2.
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284 SERMON.
SERMON. JOHN XV, #7.*
Our Lord, in a very kindly manner, in the former cap., has been comforting his disciples against the deep grief and sorrow of heart, that they had conceived by reason of his telling them that he must depart from them; his presence being as life to them, and his absence as death. After that he has comforted them against that grief, in the former cap., in this cap. he exhorts them they would look well to that union and conjunction that was between him and them; telling them that albeit there was a distance of place between them, and that a very large distance, even als far as between heaven and earth, yet, for all that, the union mystical that was between him and them should neither be abolished, nor should it be impaired by that, but it should rather be increased, to his greater glory and their further comfort. Now, to persuade them to continue in this union, he uses two strong and forcible arguments. 1. He says, When I am from you now in body, if so be that ye abide not in me, by that spiritual union and conjunction, then ye will be but
* «If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
Advocates' Library Version.t---This s a day of petitioningand of asking 3 for our fast is for humiliation, and our humiliation is for the more petitioning of the majesty of God. There is here a very ample and large promise: « Ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you;" but it is a promise under a condition, "If ye abide in me, and in my word."> And they lie in this order in the text. He had been comforting them against the griefs and troubles that might have arised to them fra his departure; and he tells them that there shall be a great distance betwixt them, even als [far] as the heaven is distant from the earth; yet the union begun (for no distance of place should hinder the union) must not cease, but rather increase. And there he will have them to abide in him, and in his word; and he uses two arguments to move them to abide in this union. One is from their fruitfulness: «If ye abide in me, ye sall bring forth fruit,"" and as it is in the
t As preached in the Parliament House, Edinburgh, on the afternoon of a day of humiliation, 4th August 1639.
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PREFACE. 283
and in the simplicity thereof, if so be we hear it not as it becomes us? or what, albeit these petitions that we put up be lawful, and warranted by him, if so be we put them not up as it becomes? Princes and great men will not be content that petitions and supplications be put up to them, whilk are not according to their will, both in matter and in manner; should we not then take heed that our supplications to that great King be right, both in matter and in manner? Therefore learn to pray to God in faith, in constancy, and in earnestness; and then we may say confidently, as David says, Psalm cxli.,* ¢ That our prayers sall be before the Lord as incense, and the lifting up of our hands as the evening sacrifice." There was never any incense that was offered, under the law, in the morning, nor no sacrifice that was offered in the evening, more acceptable to God than thy prayer sall be, when it is offered up in faith for these things whilk are commanded: and [if thou] prays in earnestness and constancy, then thou may resolve that what thou seeks sall be found. And although, as the pillar of incense did not stand still continually, but was blown to and fro, and did agitate, yet still the smoke of the incense ascended upward, and was acceptable; so albeit thou be tosted (tossed) to and fro thus with divers afflictions, yet if thou pray thus to God, thy prayers sall ascend up to heaven: and when they sall ascend, then we may be sure that we sall receive a comfortable answer, both for the refreshing of our souls, and also for continuing the light of the gospel, in the purity thereof. And therefore let us now fall down before the Lord our God, and seek unto him thus, that so he may be found of us, etc.
* Verse 2.
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284 SERMON.
SERMON. JOHN XV, #7.*
Our Lord, in a very kindly manner, in the former cap., has been comforting his disciples against the deep grief and sorrow of heart, that they had conceived by reason of his telling them that he must depart from them; his presence being as life to them, and his absence as death. After that he has comforted them against that grief, in the former cap., in this cap. he exhorts them they would look well to that union and conjunction that was between him and them; telling them that albeit there was a distance of place between them, and that a very large distance, even als far as between heaven and earth, yet, for all that, the union mystical that was between him and them should neither be abolished, nor should it be impaired by that, but it should rather be increased, to his greater glory and their further comfort. Now, to persuade them to continue in this union, he uses two strong and forcible arguments. 1. He says, When I am from you now in body, if so be that ye abide not in me, by that spiritual union and conjunction, then ye will be but
* «If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
Advocates' Library Version.t---This s a day of petitioningand of asking 3 for our fast is for humiliation, and our humiliation is for the more petitioning of the majesty of God. There is here a very ample and large promise: « Ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you;" but it is a promise under a condition, "If ye abide in me, and in my word."> And they lie in this order in the text. He had been comforting them against the griefs and troubles that might have arised to them fra his departure; and he tells them that there shall be a great distance betwixt them, even als [far] as the heaven is distant from the earth; yet the union begun (for no distance of place should hinder the union) must not cease, but rather increase. And there he will have them to abide in him, and in his word; and he uses two arguments to move them to abide in this union. One is from their fruitfulness: «If ye abide in me, ye sall bring forth fruit,"" and as it is in the
t As preached in the Parliament House, Edinburgh, on the afternoon of a day of humiliation, 4th August 1639.