HAving considered the glorious Fruits, and admirable Ef∣ficacy of Prayer, we are to look about, and to discover what Enemies we are like to meet with, to op∣pose and hinder us in the ex∣ercise of this Heavenly Du∣ty: For Prayer is in its own nature a kind of Wrestling and Striving for a Victory, which presupposeth an op∣position: And rather than it shall be wanting, God him∣self will enter into the Lists,
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 1, 2024.
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as he did with Iacob, in that * 1.1 famous Wrestling, when to shew the power of Prayer, he that was invincible, was content to be overcome by him, who had no other wea∣pons but Tears and Prayers. * 1.2 When therefore you find your selves afflicted, make use of our Saviour's Parable, Arise, though it be at Mid∣night, * 1.3 repair speedily to the Gates of your true Friend, God himself; (for you have no Friend like him) though you find the doors shut, and your Friend asleep, begin your Battery, and give not over knocking, with im∣portunate Cries and Pray∣ers, till he open to you; as Iacob would not let the
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Angel go, till he had blessed him.
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* 1.1
Gen. xxxii. 24.
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* 1.2
Hos. xii. 4.
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* 1.3
Luke xi. 5.