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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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There were three special faults whereof Cato professed himself to have seriously repented; one was passing by water when he might have gone by land, another was trusting a secret in a woman's bosom, but the main was spending an hour unprofitably. This heathen will one day rise up in Judgment ⟨p. 139⟩against them, who notwithstanding their great employments, spend many hours in a week unprofitably, and yet cry out with the Duke of Alva, that they have so much to do on earth, that they have no time to look up to heaven. 'Twas a base and sordid spirit in that King (Sardanapalus) who spent much of his time amongst women in spinning and carding, which should have been spent in Ruling and governing his Kingdom. So 'tis a base sordid spirit in any, to spend any of their time in toying and trifling, and then to cry out, that they have so much business to do in the World, that they have no time for closet-prayer, they have no time to serve God, nor to save their own precious and immortal souls. But,
There were three special faults whereof Cato professed himself to have seriously repented; one was passing by water when he might have gone by land, another was trusting a secret in a womans bosome, but the main was spending an hour unprofirably. This heathen will one day rise up in Judgment ⟨p. 139⟩against them, who notwithstanding their great imployments, spend many hours in a week unprofitably, and yet cry out with the Duke of Alva, that they have so much to do on earth, that they have no time to look up to heaven. 'Twas a base and sordid spirit in that King (Sardanapalus) who spent much of his time amongst women in spinning and carding, which should have been spent in Ruling and governing his Kingdome. So 'tis a base sordid spirit in any, to spend any of their time in toying and trifling, and then to cry out, that they have so much business to do in the World, that they have no time for closet-prayer, they have no time to serve God, nor to save their own precious and immortal souls. But,