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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, I answer, That 'tis our 1duty to redeem time, from all our secular businesses, for private prayer. All sorts of Christians whether bond or free, rich or poor, high […] low, superiors or inferiors, are expressly charged by God to redeem time for prayer, for private prayer, as well as for other holy exercises, Col. 4. 2, 3. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.
Fifthly, I answer, That 'tis our 1duty to redeem time, from all our secular businesses, for private prayer. All sorts of Christians whether bond or free, rich or poor, high 〈…〉 low, superiours or inferiours, are expresly charged by God to redeem time for prayer, for private prayer, as well as for other holy exercises, Col. 4. 2, 3. Continue inprayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.
- 1'Tis said of blessed Pooper, that he was spare of diet, spare of words, and sparest of Time.
But here some may Object and say, we have so much business to do in the world, that we have no time for prayer. The Apostle answers this Objection in Vers. 5. Walk in wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time. So Ephes. 5. 16. Redeeming the time because the days are evil; [Greek or Hebrew], or, buying out, or gaining the time. The words are a metaphor taken from Merchants, who prefer the least profit that may be gained before