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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 14: Quest. How to manage secret Prayer, that it may be prevalent with God to the comfort an…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Math. 6.6. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
WE have here our blessed Lord's instruction for the management of secret prayer, the Crown and glory of a child of God: wherein observe,
1. The direction prescribed for our deportment in secret duty, in three things.
1. Enter thy closet, the word [Greek or Hebrew] Hesychius glosses by [Greek or Hebrew], a secret or recluse habitation, and Suidas by [Greek or Hebrew], a hiding place for treasures, by a Metonymy. The LXX (such as we have it) turn the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] so frequently by [Greek or Hebrew], that we need enquire no further, as Gen. 43.30