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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 18
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Eighteenthly, Consider, that God hath set a special mark of favour, honour, and observation, upon those that have prayed in secret. As you may see in Moses, Exod. 34. 28. And in Abraham, Gen. 21. 33. And in Isaac, Gen. 24. 63. And in Jacob, Gen. 32. 24-29. And in David, Psal. 55. 16, 17. And in Daniel, Chap. 6. 10. And in Paul, Acts, 9. 11. And in Cornelius Acts, 10. 2. 4. And in Peter, Acts, 10. 9, 10, 11, 12. And in Manasseh, 2 Chron. 33. 18, 19. God hath put all these worthies that have exercised themselves in secret prayer, upon record, to their everlasting fame and honour. The Persians seldom ⟨p. 112⟩write their Kings name but in characters of Gold. God hath writ (as I may say) their names in characters of Gold, who have made conscience of exercising themselves in secret prayer. The precious names of those that have addicted themselves to closet duties, are as Statues of gold, which the polluted breath of men can no ways stain; they are like so many shining Suns that no clouds can darken; they are like so many sparkling Diamonds that shine brightest in the darkest night. A christian can never get into a hole, a corner, a closet, to pour out his soul before the Lord, but the Lord makes an honourable observation of him, and sets a secret mark of favour upon him,