Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.

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Title: Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
Author: R. H., 1609-1678.
Publication: Oxford :: [s.n.],; 1688.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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§. 93.

Exciting of a suitable. Passion.

9. Striving before hand to excite in your self a passion suting to the particular act of your devotion: As great sad∣ness, in confession of sin; —Great humility, and lowliness, and self-abjection, in petitioning; —Chearfulness, and joy, in thanking, and praising; — The passion of love, in oblation, and resignation, &c. —Compassion, in Intercession: And ob∣serve, that our intention much helpeth the production of such passion, by the lively presentation of such an object to our mind as (viz. Death, Corruption, Hell; Heaven, Light, Glory, Musick, &c.) usually excites it: the affections be∣ing thus subject to the understanding, and the will; as well as, in other respects, these faculties are to them: —Praying

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before to God, to give you such a passion, whereby you may be helped to do such a duty. Not entertaining, at the same time of prayer, a contrary passion, though it be very pious; for so neither can it be so well prosecuted.