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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.
Sixthly, I answer, If you who are gracious servants, notwithstanding your Masters businesses, cannot redeem a little time to wrestle with God in a corner, what singular thing do you? what do you more than others? Do you hear? So do others. Do you read? so do others. Do you follow your Masters to public prayers? So do others. Do you join with your Masters in family prayers? so do others. O but now gracious servants should go beyond all other servants in the world, they should do singular things for God, Math. 5. 47. What do you more then others? [Greek or Hebrew]? What extraordinary thing do you? what more ordinary than to find servants follow their Masters to Public ⟨p. 171⟩Prayers, and to Family Prayers? O but now to find poor servants to redeem a little time from their Masters business, to pour out their souls before the Lord in a corner, this is not ordinary; yea, this is extraordinary, and this doth wonderfully well become gracious servants. O that all mens servants, who are servants to the most high God, would seriously consider;
Sixthly, I answer, If you who are gracious servants, notwithstanding your Masters businesses, cannot redeem a little time to wrestle with God in a corner, what singular thing doe you? what doe you more than others? Doe you hear? So do others. Do you read? so doe others. Do you follow your Masters to publick prayers? So do others. Doe you joyn with your Masters in family prayers? so do others. O but now gracious servants should goe beyond all other servants in the world, they should do singular things for God, Math. 5. 47. What doe you more then others? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉? What extraordinary thing doe you? what more ordinary than to find servan•s follow their Masters to Publick ⟨p. 171⟩Prayers, and to Family Prayers? O but now to finde poor servants to redeem a little time from their Masters business, to pour out their souls before the Lord in a corner, this is not ordinary; yea, this is extraordinary, and this doth wonderfully well become gracious servants. O that all mens servants, who are servants to the most high God, would seriously consider;