Tuesday, February 16, 2010

So Great A Salvation

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts.’’ As if it had been said, "Though perhaps you may sometimes pray for success against your enemies, yet it is not your aim to improve the advantages you gain, so as to promote true piety and religion either in yourselves or others; but pride, vanity, luxury, and sensuality, are what you would serve by your successes, and by your very prayers. You want to live in great power and plenty, in voluptuousness and a sensual prosperity; and thus you disgrace devotion and dishonour God by such gross and base ends;