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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 8
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Now this you may see more fully and sweetly cleared up in Hos. 12. 3, 4. He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: Yea, he had power over the Angel, and prevailed: he wept and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. When Jacob was all alone, and in a dark night, and but on one leg, yet then he played the Prince with God (as the Hebrew hath it) Jacob by prayers and tears ⟨p. 58⟩did so prince it with God, as that he carried the blessing▪ Jacobs wrestling was by weeping, and his prevailing by praying. Prayers and tears are not only very pleasing to God, but also very prevalent with God. And thus you see that this great instance of Jacob, speaks out aloud the prevalency of private prayer.
Now this you may see more fully and sweetly cleared up in Hos. 12. 3, 4. He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: Yea, he had power over the Angel, and prevailed: he wept and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. When Jacob was all alone, and in a dark night, and but on one leg, yet then he play'd the Prince with God (as the Hebrew hath it) Jacob by prayers and tears ⟨p. 58⟩did so prince it with God, as that he carried the blessing▪ Jacobs wrestling was by weeping, and his prevailing by praying. Prayers and tears are not only very pleasing to God, but also very prevalent with God. And thus you see that this great instance of Jacob, speaks out aloud the prevalency of private prayer.