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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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You may take another instance of this in Jonah, Jonah 2. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly, and said, I cried by reason of my affliction, unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of Hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, into the midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me about, all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the ⟨p. 62⟩depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy Temple. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. When Jonah was all alone, and in the midst of many dangers and deaths; when he was in the Whales belly, yea, in the belly of Hell (so called because horrid and hideous, deep and dismal) yet then private prayer fetches him from thence. Let a mans dangers be never so many, nor never so great, yet secret prayer hath a certain omnipotency in it, that will deliver him out of them all. In multiplied afflictions private prayer is most prevalent with God. In the very midst of drowning, secret prayer will keep both head and heart above water. Upon Jonahs private prayer, God sends forth his Mandamus, and the Fish serves Jonah for a ship to sail safe to shore. When the case is even desperate, yet then private prayer can do ⟨p. 63⟩much with God. Private prayer is of that power that it can open the doors of Leviathan, as you see in this great instance; which yet is reckoned as a thing not feasible, Job 41. 14.
You may take another instance of this in Jonah, Jonah 2. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly, and said, I cried by reason of my affliction, unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of Hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou had'st cast me into the deep, into the midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me about, all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the