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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
THE PRIVY KEY OF HEAVEN, Or, a Discourse of CLOSET-PRAYER. › Argument 2
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.
Thirdly, To avoid interruptions in the duty. Secrecy is no small advantage to the serious and lively carrying on of a private duty. Interruptions and disturbances from without are often-times quench-coals to private prayer. The best Christians do but bungle when they meet with interruptions in their private devotions.
Thirdly, To avoid interruptions in the duty. Secresie is no small advantage to the serious and lively carrying on of a private duty. Interruptions and disturbances from without are often-times quench-coals to private prayer. The best Christians do but bungle when they meet with interruptions in their private devotions.
Fourthly, To set us such a blessed pattern and gracious example, that we should never please nor content our selves with public-prayers only, nor with family-prayers only, but that we should also apply our selves to secret prayer, to closet prayer. Christ was not always in public, nor always in his family, but he was often in private ⟨p. 26⟩with God alone, that by his own example he might encourage us to be often with God in secret; and happy are they that tread in his steps, and that write after his Copy.
Fourthly, To set us such a blessed pattern and gracious example, that we should never please nor content our selves with publick-prayers onely, nor with family-prayers only, but that we should also apply our selves to secret prayer, to closet prayer. Christ was not alwayes in publick, nor alwayes in his family, but he was often in private ⟨p. 26⟩with God alone, that by his own example he might encourage us to be often with God in secret; and happy are they that tread in his steps, and that write after his Copy.