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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 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.
The Rabins say of Liberty, That if the Heavens were Parchment, the Sea Inke, and every pile of Grass a Pen, the praises of it could not be comprized 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 choisest encouragements to be holy and happy.
The religious servant should be as careful in the choice of his master, as the religious master is careful in the choice of his servant. Gracious servants are great blessings to the families where they live; and that master may well be called the unhappy master, who will rather part with a gracious servant, than spare him a little time in a day, to pour out his soul before the Lord in a corner. But,
Fourthly, I answer, If thou art a gracious servant, then thou art spirited and principled by God, to that very purpose, that thou mayest