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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 5
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Fifthly, Secret duties shall have open rewards, Matth. 6. 6. And thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. So Vers. 18. God will reward his people here in part, & hereafter in all perfection: He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him in a corner. They that sow in tears secretly, shall reap in joy openly. Private prayer shall be rewarded before men and Angels publicly. How openly did God reward Daniel for his secret prayer? Dan. 6. 10. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Mordecai privately discovered a plot of treason against the person of King Ahasuerus, and he is rewarded openly, Esther 2. 21, 22, 23. with Chap. 6. Darius before he came to the kingdom, received privately a garment for a gift of one Syloson; and when he came to be King, he rewarded him openly with the command of his Country Samus. God in the great ⟨p. 35⟩Day, will recompense his people before all the world, for every secret prayer, and secret tear, and secret sigh, and secret groan that hath come from his people. God in the great day will declare to men and Angels, how often his people have been in pouring out their souls before him in such and such holes, corners, and secret places, and accordingly he will reward them.
Fifthly, Secret duties shall have open rewards, Matth. 6. 6. And thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. So Vers. 18. God will reward his people here in part, & hereafter in all perfection: He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him in a corner. They that sow in tears secretly, shal reap in joy openly. Private prayer shall be rewarded before men and Angels publickly. How openly did God reward Daniel for his secret prayer? Dan. 6. 10. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Mordecai privately discovered a plot of treason against the person of King Ahasuerus, and he is rewarded openly, Esther 2. 21, 22, 23. with Chap. 6. Darius before he came to the kingdom, received privately a garment for a gift of one Syloson; and when he came to be King, he rewarded him openly with the command of his Country Samus. God in the great