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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.
First, the Text is indefinite, and not limited to any sort or rank of 1persons, whether high or low, rich or poor, bond or free, servant or master. But thou when thou prayest, enter into thy Closet; and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. Here are three thou's, thou, thou, thou, which are ⟨p. 163⟩to be understood indefinitely; thou servant as well as thou master, thou bond-man as well as thou free-man, thou poor man as well as thou rich man, thou maid as well as thou mistress, thou child as well as thou father, thou wife as well as thou husband. Private prayer is an indispensable duty that lies upon all sorts and ranks of persons. A man may as well say that that Pronoun (Tu) thou that runs through the ten Commandments (Thou shalt have no other 2gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Six days shalt thou labour. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit Adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbours, &c.) relates to ⟨p. 164⟩the rich, and not to the poor, to masters and not to servants, to the free, and not to them that are in bonds, &c. as he may say, that the three thou's in the Text relates to the rich and not to the poor, to masters and not to servants, to those that are free, but not to those that are bound; but certainly there is no man in his wits that will say so, that will affirm such a thing. Doubtless this Pronoun Thou, reacheth every man, of what rank or quality soever he be in this world. But,
First, the Text is indefinite, and not limited to any sort or rank of 1persons, whether high or low, rich or poor, bond or free, servant or master. But thou when thou prayest, enter into thy Closet; and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. Here are three thou's, thou, thou, thou, which are