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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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He will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And sometimes after they have prayed; as the experiences of all Christians ⟨p. 61⟩can testify. Sometimes God neither hears nor receives a prayer; and this is the common case and lot of the wicked, Prov. 1. 28. Job 27. 9. Isa. 1. 15. Sometimes God hears the prayers of his people, but doth not presently answer them, as in that case of Paul, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 8, 9. And sometimes God both hears and receives the prayers of his people, as here he did Davids. Now in this instance of David as in a glass, you may run and read the prevalency of private prayer, and of secret tears.
He will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And sometimes after they have prayed; as the experiences of all Christians ⟨p. 61⟩can testifie. Sometimes God neither hears nor receives a prayer; and this is the common case and lot of the wicked, Prov. 1. 28. Job 27. 9. Isa. 1. 15. Sometimes God hears the prayers of his people, but doth not presently answer them, as in that case of Paul, 2 Cor. 12. 7, 8, 9. And sometimes God both hears and receives the prayers of his people, as here he did Davids. Now in this instance of David as in a glasse, you may run and read the prevalency of private prayer, and of secret tears.