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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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And I may add a Fifth key that ⟨p. 82⟩is under his Girdle, and that is the key of the Word, the key of the Scripture, which key none can turn but he that hath the key of David, that opens and no man shuts, and that shuts and no man opens, Revel. 3. 7.
O sirs, God reveals himself, and his mind, and will, and truth, to his people in a more friendly and familiar way, than he doth to others, Mark 4. 11. And he said unto them, unto you 'tis given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables. Luke 8. 10. And he said, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Though great Doctors and profound Clerks, and deep studied, but unsanctified Divines, may know much of the Doctrines of the Gospel, and commend much the doctrines of the Gospel, and dispute much for the doctrines of the Gospel, and glory ⟨p. 83⟩much in the doctrines of the Gospel, and take a great deal of pains to dress and trim up the doctrines of the Gospel, with the flowers of Rhetoric or Eloquence; though it be much better to present truth in her native plainness, than to hang her ears with counterfeit Pearls (the Word, without humane adornments, is like the stone Garamantides, that hath drops of gold in it self, sufficient to enrich the believing soul) Yet the special, spiritual, powerful, and saving 1knowledge of the doctrines of the Gospel, is a secret, a mystery, yea, a hidden mystery to them.
O sirs, God reveals himself, and his mind, and will, and truth, to his people in a more friendly and familiar way, than he doth to others,