A29703:374
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, A fellowship with God in his holiness;
Secondly, A fellowship with God in his blessedness, viz. In the beatifical vision, and brightness of glory. To be made partakers of the divine nature, say others, is to be made partakers of those holy graces, those divine qualities, which sometimes are called, The Image of God, the likeness of God, the life of God, 1&c. whereby we resemble God not only as a picture doth a man in outward lineaments, but as a child doth his father in countenance and conditions. Now take the words which way you will; how highly doth it concern those servants, that are made partakers of the divine nature, to do singular things for God, to do such things for God, that other servants that are not partakers of the divine nature, have no mind, no heart, no spirit to do; yea, that they refuse and scorn to do?
Secondly, A fellowship with God in his blessedness, viz. In the beatifical vision, and brightness of glory. To be made partakers of the divine nature, say others, is to be made partakers of those holy graces, those divine qualities, which sometimes are called, The Image of God, the likeness of God, the life of God, 1&c. whereby we resemble God not only as a picture doth a man in outward lineaments, but as a child doth his father in countenance and conditions. Now take the words which way you will; how highly doth it concern those servants, that are made partakers of the divine nature, to doe singular things for God, to doe such things for God, that other servants that are not partakers of the divine nature, have no mind, no heart, no spirit to do; yea, that they refuse and scorn to do?