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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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Fourthly, I answer, No man dares plead this objection before the Lord Jesus in the great day of account: And why then should any man be so childish & foolish, so 1ignorant & impudent to plead that ⟨p. 140⟩before men, which is not pleadable before the Judgment seat of Christ. O sirs, as you love your souls, and as you would be happy for ever, never put off your own consciences nor others, with any plea's, arguments, or objections, now, that you dare not own and stand by, when you shall lye upon a dying bed, and when you shall appear before the whole court of heaven, &c. In the great day of account, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest, and God shall call men to a reckoning, before Angels, Men and Devils, for the neglect of private prayer; all guilty persons will be found speechless, there will not be a man, or woman found, that shall dare to stand up and say, Lord, I would have waited upon thee in my closet, but that I had so much business to do in the world, that I had no time to enjoy secret communion with thee in a Corner. 'Tis the greatest wisdom in the world, to plead nothing by way of excuse in this our day, that we dare not plead in the great day. But.
Fourthly, I answer, No man dares plead this objection before the Lord Jesus in the great day of account: And why then should any man be so childish & foolish, so 1ignorant & impudent to plead that ⟨p. 140⟩before men, which is not pleadable before the Judgment seat of Christ. O sirs, as you love your souls, and as you would be happy for ever, never put off your own consciences nor others, with any plea's, arguments, or objections, now, that you dare not own and stand by, when you shall lye upon a dying bed, and when you shall appear before the whole court of heaven, &c. In the great day of account, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest, and God shall call men to a reckoning, before Angels, Men and Devils, for the neglect of private prayer; all giulty persons will be found speechless, there will not be a man, or woman found, that shall dare to stand up and say, Lord, I would have waited upon thee in my closet, but that I had so much business to do in the world, that I had no time to enjoy secret communion with thee in a Corner. 'Tis the greatest wisdom in the world, to plead nothing by way of excusein this our day, that we dare not plead in the great day. But.