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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Answer, In these seven respects Afflictions are like unto a Rod.
First, The Rod is never made use of, but when no fair means will prevail with the Child. 'Tis so here, God never takes up the Rod, he never afflicts his People, till he 1hath tried all fair ways and means to humble them, and reform them: And when none of the offers of grace, the tenders of mercy, the wooings of Christ, the strivings of the Spirit, north smart debates of Conscience will awaken them, nor work upon them, then God takes up the Rod, and sometimes whips them till the blood comes. But,
First, The Rod is never made use of, but when no fair means will prevail with the Child. 'Tis so here, God never takes up the Rod, he never afflicts his People, till he 1hath tryed all fair wayes and means to humble them, and reform them: And when none of the offers of grace, the tenders of mercy, the wooings of Christ, the strivings of the Spirit, northe smart debates of Conscience will awaken them, nor work upon them, then God takes up the Rod, and sometimes whips them till the blood comes. But,
- 12 Chron. 36. 15,—ult. Mat. 23. 37, 38.
Secondly, Parents choose what Rods they please to correct their Children with. The Child shall not choose what ⟨image 8⟩