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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.
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 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 Apothegme, Amici diem perdidi, My friends, I have lost a day.
- 1Suetonius.
Chilo, one of the seven Sages, being asked what was the hardest thing in the world to be done, answered, To use and employ a mans time well.
Cato held, That an account must be given not only of our labour, but also of our leisure. And Aelian gives this testimony of the Lacedaemonians, That they were hugely covetous of their time, spending it all about necessary things, and suffering ⟨p. 147⟩no Citizen either to be idle or play. And, saith another, We trifle with that which is most precious, and throw away that which is our greatest interest to redeem.
Cato held, That an account must be given not only of our labour, but also of our leisure. And Aelian gives this testimony of the Lacedemonians, That they were hugely covetous of their time, spending it all about necessary things, and suffering