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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
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Secondly, This truth looks sourly and sadly upon those that pray not at all, neither in their Families nor in their closets. Among all Gods Children, there is not one possest with a dumb devil. Prayerless persons are forsaken of God, blinded by Satan, hardened in sin, & every breath they draw, liable to all temporal, spiritual, and eternal ⟨p. 126⟩Judgements. Prayer is that part of natural worship due to God, which none will deny but stark Atheists, Psal. 14. 1.
Secondly, This truth looks sourly and sadly upon those that pray not at all, neither in their Families nor in their closets. Among all Gods Children, there is not one possest with a dumb devil. Prayerlesse persons are forsaken of God, blinded by Satan, hardned in sin, & every breath they draw, liable to all temporal, spiritual, and eternal ⟨p. 126⟩Judgements. Prayer is that part of natural worship due to God, which none will deny but stark Atheists, Psal. 14. 1.
It is observable that amongst the 1worst of men, Turks; and the worst of Turks, the Moors, it is a just exception against any witness by their Law, that he hath not prayed six times in every natural day, it being usual with them to pray six times a day.
- 1That wicked men ought to pray, and the grand objection against their prayers answered at large in my Treatise called The Crown and glory of Christianity, from Page 326. to pag. 337.