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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.
3. Pray to thy Father in secret. [Father] which is pietatis & potestatis appellatio, as Tertullian notes, a name hinting both piety and power, [to thy Father, 1] noting both propriety and intimacy.
- 1De Orat.
2. A gracious promise, which may be branched into three parts.
2. A gracious promise, which may be branch't into three parts.
1. For thy Father sees thee in secret, his eye is upon thee with a gracious aspect, when thou art withdrawn from all the world.
2. He will reward thee, [Greek or Hebrew], retribuet, reponet, or as Ambrose reads it, redder; so the word is sometimes translated by rendering,