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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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Seventhly, I answer, That God did never appoint or design any mans ordinary, particular calling, to thrust private prayer out of door. That 'tis a great sin for any professor to neglect his particular calling under any religious pretence, is evident enough by 1these Scriptures. Exod. 20. 9. Six days shall thou labour, and do all thy work. 1 Cor. 7. 20. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was c•lled. 2 Thess. 4. 10, 11. 12. For even when we were with you this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear, that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies: Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 1 Thess. 4. 11, 12. And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work ⟨p. 154⟩with your own hands (as we commanded you) That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. Ephes. 4. 28. But rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Yea, our Lord Jesus Christ was a plain downright Carpenter, and was laborious in that particular calling, 2till he entered upon the public ministry; as all the Ancients do agree. And we read also, that all the Patriarchs had their particular callings. Abel was a keeper of sheep, Gen. 4. 2. Noah was a Husbandman,