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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.
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THE PRIVY KEY OF HEAVEN, Or, a Discourse of CLOSET-PRAYER. › Argument 12
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Twelfthly, Consider, you are the only persons in all the world that God hath made choice of to reveal his secrets to. John 15. 15. Henceforth I call you not servants, for the Servant knoweth not what his Lord doth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known unto you. Every thing that God the father had communicated to Christ as Mediator to be revealed to his servants, he did make known to his disciples as to his bosom friends. Christ loves his people as friends, and he uses them as friends, and he opens his heart to them as friends. There is nothing in the heart of Christ, that concerns the internal and eternal 1welfare of his friends, but he reveals it to them: he reveals himself, his love, his eternal good-will, the mysteries of Faith, and the secrets of his Covenant, to his friends. Christ loves not to entertain his ⟨p. 76⟩friends with things that are commonly and vulgarly known. Christ will reveal the secrets of his mind, the secrets of his love, the secrets of his thoughts, the secrets of his heart, and the secrets of his purposes, to all his bosom friends. Sampson could not hide his mind, his secrets from Delilah, 2though it cost him his life: and do you think that Christ can hide his mind, his secrets from them for whom he hath laid down his life? surely no. O sirs, Christ is,
Twelfthly, Consider, you are the only persons in all the world that God hath made choice of to reveale his secrets to. John 15. 15. Henceforth I call you not servants, for the Servant knoweth not what his Lord doth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known unto you. Every thing that God the father had communicated to Christ as Mediator to be revealed to his servants, he did make known to his disciples as to his bosome friends. Christ loves his people as friends, and he uses them as friends, and he opens his heart to them as friends. There is nothing in the heart of Christ, that concerns the internal and eternal 1