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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.
The second, for the reading of the Law.
And the third for the works of their lawful callings.
As bad as the Jews were, yet they every day set a part of the day apart for religious exercises. Certainly, they are worse than Jews that spend all their time about their particular callings, and shut closet prayer quite out of doors. Certainly, that mans soul is in a very ill case, who is so entangled with the incumbrances of the world, that he can spare no time for private prayer. If God be the Lord of thy mercies, the Lord of thy time, and the Lord of thy soul, how canst thou with any equity or honour, put off his service under a pretence of much business? that man is lost, that man is curst, who can find time ⟨p. 159⟩for any thing, but none to meet with God in his Closet. That man is doubtless upon the brink of ruin, whose worldly business eats up all thoughts of God, of Christ, of Heaven, of Eternity, of his Soul, and of his soul concernments. But,
As bad as the Jews were, yet they every day set a part of the day apart for religious exercises. Certainly, they are worse than Jews that spend all their time about their particular callings, and shut closet prayer quite out of doors. Certainly, that mans soul is in a very ill case, who is so entangled with the incumbrances of the world, that he can spare no time for private prayer. If God be the Lord of thy mercies, the Lord of thy time, and the Lord of thy soul, how can'st thou with any equity or honour, put off his service under a pretence of much business? that man is lost, that man is curst, who can find time ⟨p. 159⟩for any thing, but none to meet with God in his Closet. That man is doubtless upon the brink of ruine, whose worldly business eats up all thoughts of God, of Christ, of Heaven, of Eternity, of his Soul, and of his soul concernments. But,