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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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Sixthly, Take many things in one. Gracious servants have more excellent graces, experiences, comforts, communions, promises, assurances, discoveries, hopes, helps, principles, diet, raiment, portion, than all other servants in the world have; and therefore God may well expect better and greater things from them, than from all other servants in the world. God may very well expect that they should do singular things for his Glory, who hath done such singular things for their good. Certainly God expects that gracious servants ⟨p. 175⟩should be a blessing of him, when other servants are a blaspheming of him; that they should be a magnifying of him, when other servants are a debasing of him; that they should be a redeeming of precious time, when other servants are a trifling, fooling, playing or sinning away of precious time; that they should be a weeping in a corner, when other servants are a sporting and making themselves merry among their jovial companions; that they should be a mourning in secret, when other servants are a sinning in secret; and that they should be at their private devotion, when other servants are sleeping and snorting, &c.
Sixthly, Take many things in one. Gracious servants have more excellent graces, experiences, comforts, communions, promises, assurances, discoveries, hopes, helps, principles, diet, rayment, portion, than all other servants in the world have; and therefore God may well expect better and greater things from them, than from all other servants in the world. God may very well expect that they should doe singular things for his Glory, who hath done such singular things for their good. Certainly God expects that gracious servants ⟨p. 175⟩should be a blessing of him, when other servants are a blaspheming of him; that they should be a magnifying of him, when other servants are a debasing of him; that they should be a redeeming of precious time, when other servants are a trifling, fooling, playing or sinning away of procious time; that they should be a weeping in a corner, when other servants are a sporting and making themselves merry among their jovall companions; that they should be a mourning in secret, when other servants are a sinning in secret; and that they should be at their private devotion, when other servants are sleeping and snorting, &c.