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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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whereupon he was so confident, that he sent word to his friend, that he should certainly recover; and so it fell out accordingly. And so Latimer prayed with great zeal for three things. 1. That Queen Elizabeth might come to the Crown. 2. That he might seal the truth with his heart blood. And 3. That the Gospel might be restored once again, once again; ⟨p. 66⟩which he expressed with great vehemency of spirit. All which three God heard him in.
whereupon he was so confident, that he sent word to his friend, that he should certainly recover; and so it fell out accordingly. And so Latimer prayed with great zeale for three things. 1. That Queen Elizabeth might come to the Crown. 2. That he might seale the truth with his heart blood. And 3. That the Gospel might be restored once again, once again; ⟨p. 66⟩which he expressed with great vehemency of spirit. All which three God heard him in.
Constantine commanded that his Effigies should be engraven, not as other Emperors, in their Armour leaning, but as in a posture of prayer, kneeling; to manifest to the world, that he won more by secret prayer, than by open Battles.
Constantine commanded that his Effigies should be engraven, not as other Emperours, in their Armour leaning, but as in a posture of prayer, kneeling; to manifest to the world, that he won more by secret prayer, than by open Battles.
Mr. Dod reports, that when many good people had often sought the Lord in the behalf of a woman that was possessed with the Devil, and yet could not prevail, at last they appointed a day for fasting and prayer; at which time there came a poor woman to the chamber door, where the exercise was begun, and craved entrance; but she being poor they would not admit her in: upon that the poor woman kneeled down behind the door, and sought God by prayer. But she had not prayed long, before the evil spirit raged, roared, and cried out in the possessed woman, take