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The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…
The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.
London : Printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock, 1665
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.
TO THE READER.
Christian Reader,
The Epistle Dedicatory being (occasionally) so large, I shall do little more than give thee the grounds and reasons of sending forth this little piece into the World, especially in such a day as this is. Now my reasons are these,
THe Epistle Dedicatory being (occasionally) so large, I shall do little more than give thee the grounds and reasons of sending forth this little piece into the World, especially in such a day as this is. Now my reasons are these,
First, Because God by his present dispensations calls more loudly for Closet-prayer now, than he hath done in those last twenty years that are now past over our heads. See more of this in the 16. Argument for Closet-prayer, pag. 103, to p. 108.