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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.
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 ⟨p. 146⟩Chresius a Sophister or Byzantium in the time of Hadrianus the Emperor, he was much given to Wine; yet he always counted time so precious, that when he had misspent his time all the day, he would redeem it at night.
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 ⟨p. 146⟩Chresius a Sophister or Byzantium in the time of Hadrianus the Emperour, he was much given to Wine; yet he alwayes counted time so precious, that when he had misspent his time all the day, he would redeem it at night.
When Titus Vespasian, who revenged Christs blood on Jerusalem, returned Victor to Rome, remembering 1one night as he sate at supper with his friends, that he had done no good that day, he uttered this memorable and praise-worthy Apothegm, Amici diem perdidi, My friends, I have lost a day.
When Titus Vespatian, who revenged Christs blood on Jerusalem, returned Victor to Rome, remembring 1