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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.
Thirdly, I answer, 'Tis ten to one but that the objecter, every day fools away, or trifles away, or idles away, or sins away, one hour in a day; and why then should he object the want of time? There are none that toil, and moil, and busy themselves most in their ⟨p. 138⟩worldly employments, but do 1spend an hour or more in a day to little or no purpose; either in gazing about, or in dallying, or toying, or dourting, or in telling of stories or in busying themselves in other mens matters, or in idle visits, or in smoking the Pipe, &c. And why then should not these men redeem an hours time in a day for private prayer, out of that time which they usually spend so vainly and idly? can you notwithstanding all your great worldly employments find an hour in the day to catch flies in, as Domitian the Emperor did, and to play the fool in? and cannot you find an hour in the day to wait on God in your closets?
Thirdly, I answer, 'Tis ten to one but that the objecter, every day fools away, or trifles away, or idles away, or sins away, one hour in a day; and why then should he object the want of time? There are none that toyle, and moyle, and busie themselves most in their ⟨p. 138⟩worldly imployments, but doe 1spend an houre or more in a day to little or no purpose; either in gazing about, or in dallying, or toying, or dourting, or in telling of stories or in busying themselves in other mens matters, or in idle visits, or in smoaking the Pipe, &c. And why then should not these men redeem an hours time in a day for private prayer, out of that time which they usually spend so vainly and idly? can you notwithstanding all your great worldly imployments find an hour in the day to catch flyes in, as Domitian the Emperour did, and to play the fool in? and cannot you find an hour in the day to wait on God in your closets?
- 1Myrmecides, a famous Artist, spent more time in making a Bee, than an unskilful workman would do to build a house. Plutarch.