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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.
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 ⟨p. 142⟩their pleasures or delights, closely following their business whilst the markets are at best. A Merchant when he comes to a •art or Fair, takes the first season and opportunity of buying his commodities; he puts it not off to the hazard of an evening, or to the next morning, in hopes to have a better bargain; but he improves the present season, and buys before the Market is over.
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 dayes are evil; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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 ⟨p. 142⟩their pleasures or delights, closely following their business whilst the markets are at best. A Merchant when he comes to a •art or Fair, takes the first season and opportunity of buying his commodities; he puts it not off to the hazard of an evening, or to the next morning, in hopes to have a better bargain; but he improves the present season, and buyes before the Market is over.