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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.
First, What are all those businesses that are upon your hands, to those great businesses & weighty affairs that did lye upon the hands of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Daniel, Elijah, Nehemiah, 1Peter, Cornelius! and yet you find all these worthies exercising themselves in Private prayers. And the King is commanded every day to read some part of Gods word, ⟨p. 135⟩notwithstanding all his great and weighty employments, Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. Now certainly, Sirs, your great businesses are little more than ciphers, compared with theirs: And if there were any on earth that might have pleaded an exemption from private prayer, upon the account of business, of much business, of great business, these might have done it; but they were more honest, and more noble than to neglect so choice a duty, upon the account of much business; these brave hearts made all their public employments stoop to private prayer; they would never suffer their public employments to tread private prayer under foot. But,
First, What are all those businesses that are upon your hands, to those great businesses & weighty affaires that did lye upon the hands of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Daniel, Elias, Nehemiah, 1Peter, Cornelius! and yet you find all these worthies exercising themselves in Private prayers. And the King is commanded every day to read some part of Gods word, ⟨p. 135⟩notwithstanding all his great and weighty imployments, Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. Now certainly, Sirs, your great businesses are little more than ciphers, compared with theirs: And if there were any on earth that might have pleaded an exemption from private prayer, upon the account of business, of much business, of great business, these might have done it; but they were more honest, and more noble than to neglect so choice a duty, upon the account of much business; these brave hearts made all their publick imployments stoop to private prayer; they would never suffer their publick imployments to tread private prayer under foot. But,