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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.
So the Primitive Christians would redeem some time from ⟨p. 145⟩their sleep, that they might be with God in their Closets, as Clemens observes.1
- 1Clemens.
And I have read of Theodosius the Emperor, that after the variety 1of worldly employments relating to his civil affairs in the day time were over, how he was wont to consecrateth greatest part of the night to the studying of the Scriptures and private prayer; to which purpose he had a Lamp, so artificially made, that it supplied it self with oil, that so he might no way be interrupted in his private retirements.
And I have read of Theodosius the Emperour, that after the variety 1of worldly imployments relating to his civil affaires in the day time were over, how he was wont to consecratethe greatest part of the night to the studying of the Scriptures and private prayer; to which purpose he had a Lamp, so artificially made, that it supplied it self with oyl, that so he might no way be interrupted in his private retirements.
- 1Nicephorus
That Time ought to be redeemed, is a lesson that hath been taught by the very Heathens themselves. 'Twas the saying of Pittacus, one of the seven wise men, Know time, lose not a minute. And so Theophrastus used to say, That Time is of precious cost. And so Seneca, Time is the only thing (saith he) that we can innocently be covetous of; and yet there is nothing of which many are more lavishly and profusely prodigal. And