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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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Fourthly, I answer, If thou art a gracious servant, then thou art spirited and principled by God, to that very purpose, that thou mayest ⟨p. 167⟩cry Abba Father, when thou art 1alone, when thou art in a corner, and no eye seeth thee, but his who seeth in secret. If thou are a gracious servant, then thou hast received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, 1 Cor. 2. 12. Now he that hath this tree of life, he hath also the fruit that grows upon this tree, Gal. 5. 22, 23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, &c. Now grace is called, not the works of the Spirit, but the fruits of the Spirit.
1. Because all grace is derived from the Spirit, as the fruit is derived from the root. And,
2. To note the pleasantness and delightfulness of grace: for what is more pleasant and delightful, than