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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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Fifthly and lastly, Hannah prayed and yet spoke never a word; her heart was full, but her voice was not heard, 1 Sam. 1. 11. Moses prays and cries, and yet lets fall never a word, Exod. 14. 15. And the Lord said unto Moses, wherefore criest thou unto me? Moses did not cry with any audible voice, but with inward sighs, and secret breathings and wrestlings of soul; and these inward and secret cries, which made no noise, carried the day with God; for Moses is heard, and answered, and his people are delivered. O the prevalency of those ⟨p. 132⟩prayers that make no noise in the ears of others.
Fifthly and lastly, Hannah prayed and yet spoke never a word; her heart was full, but her voice was not heard, 1 Sam. 1. 11. Moses prayes and cries, and yet lets fall never a word, Exod. 14. 15. And the Lord said unto Moses, wherefore cryest thou unto me? Moses did not cry with any audible voice, but with inward sighs, and secret breathings and wrestlings of soul; and these inward and secret cries, which made no noise, carried the day with God; for Moses is heard, and answered, and his people are delivered. O the prevalency of those ⟨p. 132⟩prayers that make no noise in the ears of others.
Fifthly, and lastly, This truth looks sourly and sadly upon those that do all they can to hinder and discourage others from this duty of duties, Private prayer; and that either by deriding or vilifying of the duty; or else, by denying of it to be a duty; or else, by their daily neglect of this duty; or else, by denying them that are under them time and opportunity for the discharge of this duty. In