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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.
These words of our Saviour are plain, and to be taken literally, and not Allegorically, for he speaketh of shutting the Door of the Chamber. In this chapter there is a manifest opposition between ⟨p. 2⟩the Pharisees praying in the Synagogues and corners of the streets, and others praying in secret.
THese words of our Saviour are plain, and to be taken litterally, and not Allegorically, for he speaketh of shutting the Door of the Chamber. In this chapter there is a manifest opposition between ⟨p. 2⟩the Pharisees praying in the Synagogues and corners of the streets, and others praying in secret.
In the Text you have a positive Precept for every Christian to pray alone; But thou, when thou prayest: he saith not, when (you) pray, but (thou) when (thou) prayest, enter into thy closet, &c. as speaking not so much of a joint duty of many praying together, as of a duty which each person is to do alone. The command in the Text sends us as well to the Closet as to the Church; and he is a hypocrite in grain that chooses the one and neglects the other; for thereby he tells the world he cares for neither, he makes conscience of neither. He that puts on a religious habit abroad, to gain himself a great Name among men, and at the same time lives like an Atheist at home, shall at the last be uncased by God, and presented before all the world for a 1most egregious hypocrite.
In the Text you have a positive Precept for every Christian to pray alone; But thou, when thou prayest: he saith not, when (you) pray, but (thou) when (thou) prayest, enter into thy closet, &c. as speaking not so much of a joynt duty of many praying together, as of a duty which each person is to do alone. The command in the Text sends us as well to the Closet as to the Church; and he is a hypocrite in grain that chooses the one and neglects the other; for thereby he tells the world he cares for neither, he makes conscience of neither. He that puts on a religious habit abroad, to gain himself a great Name among men, and at the same time lives like an Atheist at home, shall at the last be uncas't by God, and presented before all the world for a