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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.
Thirdly, I answer, If thou art a servant that hast liberty to choose a new Master, thou wert better remove 1thy station than live under such a masters roof, who is such an enemy to God, to Christ, to Religion, to himself, and to the eternal welfare of thy poor soul, as that he will not give thee half an hours time in a day to spend in thy chamber, thy closet, though the glory of God, the good of his own family, and the everlasting happiness of thine own soul, is concerned in it. 'Tis better for thee to shift thy master, than to neglect thy duty. 1 Cor. 7. 21. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 2We lost our liberty by sin, and we affect nothing more than liberty by nature.
- 1Psal. 84. 10 Psal. 120. 5.
- 2Justinus the second Fmperours Motto was Libertas res inestimabilis. Liberty is unvaluable.
The Rabbins say of Liberty, That if the Heavens were Parchment, the Sea Ink, and every pile of Grass a Pen, the praises of it could not be comprised nor ⟨p. 166⟩expressed. Labans house was full of Idols; great houses are often so. Jacobs tent was little, but the true worship of God was in it. 'Tis infinitely better to live in Jacobs tent, than in Labans house. 'Tis best being with such Masters where we may have least of sin, and most of God; where we may have the most helps, the best examples, and the choicest encouragements to be holy and happy.