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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.
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.
Secondly, Because I have several reasons to fear that many Christians do not clearly nor fully understand the necessity, excellency, and usefulness of this subject, and that many (O that I could not say any) live in too great a neglect of this indispensable duty, and that more than a few, for want of light, err in the very practice of it.