Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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London :: printed for W. Hensman, at the King's-Head in Westminster-Hall,
1683.
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Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Practical -- Early works to 1800.
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"Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36933.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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THe next Dignity of Prayer is, that it is the effectual means of enstating the Kingdom of God in us, not only the Kingdom of Grace, in this World, which in the Apostles Character is Righteousness, and Peace, and Joy the Holy Ghost; but the Kingdom of Glory in the next, to which Prayer not only gives us the Title, but puts us in a kind of Pos∣session, by affording us a taste at least, and an earnest of that Glory. The first time that we find it written that our Saviour prayed, we find in the very next words, three passages of wonder where∣of * 1.1 the first was, that the
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Heavens were opened; the next, that the Holy Ghost descended on him as a Dove; the third, that there was a Voice that came from Hea∣ven, which said, Thou art my Beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased. And wherefore this, but to shew us the admirable effects of Prayer? First, that it is the Key to open Heaven to us; next, that it hath that attractive power, as to draw down the Spirit of God upon us; and Lastly, that it puts us into the quality of Sons, and of such Sons in whom he is well-pleased. After this, when he went up into a Moun∣tain* 1.2to pray; What followed upon this? The Evangelist tells us, That as he was praying,* 1.3
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his face did shine as the Sun, and his Garment was white as* 1.4the Light: So white (saith St. Mark) that no Fuller on earth could white them. And though it is not said that this Transfiguration of our Sa∣viour, was absolutely and fully the Kingdom of Hea∣ven come down to him, yet we find there was so much of the Glory of it, as Peter* 1.5 in his Amazement took to be Heaven, and desired to fix his Tabernacle there, and to go no higher. You see here the strange effects of Prayer, it draws down one Kingdom to you, and lifts you up to another. It bows down to you the King∣dom of Grace, and draws