TAUGHT FROM FIVE HEADS IN RELIGION: FAITH, HOPE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, PRAYER, THE BY JOHN HACKET, D.D. BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY. A NEW EDITION, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A Short Account of the Author. "SERVE GOD AND BE CHEERFUL" Bp. Hacket's Motto. LONDON: JAMES BURNS, 17, PORTMAN STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. M DCCC XL. That a Christian's Comfort flows from the Grace of Hope. The Object of Hope is, 1. That which is good. 2. A Good absent. 3. Though absent, yet possible; and that for three Reasons. 4. Though possible, yet difficult. An Account of two Sorts of How a Christian's Comforts flow from the Inhabitation and Testi- mony of the Holy Ghost, as also from the Sanctification of the Spirit unto all Obedience, and the Fruits of Righteousness...... 30 Prayer is the great Instrument of a Christian's Comfort. Concern- ing Prayer, three Things to be considered :-I. The Substance or Matter of Prayer, in three Heads: 1. Thanksgivings; 2. Sup- plications; 3. Intercessions :-II. The Qualifications of them OHN HACKET, sometime Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, whose name is prefixed to this treatise, was born in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the Strand, near the place where Exeter House formerly stood, on the first day of September, A. D. 1592. His father, Andrew Hacket, a native of Scotland, was a senior burgess of the borough of Westminster, and afterwards keeper of the robes to Prince Henry, son of James the First. Being, as Wood reports of him, a zealous Protestant, he took great care of the education of this his only son, and sent him at a very early age to the College School, Westminster; where his promising talents and love for learning gained him the kind regard of his master, Mr. Richard Ireland. At this time the Dean of Westminster was that exemplary man, and ornament of the church |