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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.
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.
1. Before the day-break they pray for day. 2. When it is day, they give thanks for day. 3. At noon they thank God for half the day past. 4. After that they pray for a good Sun-set. 5. And after that they thank God for the day past.
And then, sixthly and lastly, they pray for a good night after their day.
Certainly, these very Moors will one day rise in judgement against them, who cast off prayer, who