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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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'Tis observable, the Psalmist doth not say time, but times, in the plural, to show that every point and period of time, depends upon the hand of God.
'Tis observable, the Psalmist doth not say time, but times, in the plural, to shew that every point and period of time, depends upon the hand of God.
One complaining of those who say, Come, let us talk together to pass away the time; with grief of spirit 1cries out (O donec praetereat hora, &c.) O until the hour be gone, O until time be past, which the mercy of thy maker hath bestowed upon thee to perform repentance, to procure pardon, to gain grace, and to obtain glory. That servant that borrows a little time every day to seek the face of God in a corner, borrows it rather of God than of his master; and therefore why should his master swell, or rage, or complain, considering ⟨p. 182⟩that God never made him Lord of time. But,
One complaining of those who say, Come, let us talk together to pass away the time; with grief of spirit 1cryes out (O donec praetereat hora, &c.) O until the hour be gone, O until time be past, which the mercy of thy maker hath bestowed upon thee to performe repentance, to procure pardon, to gain grace, and to obtain glory. That servant that borrows a little time every day to seek the face of God in a corner, borrows it rather of God than of his master; and therefore why should his master swell, or rage, or complain, considering ⟨p. 182⟩that God never made him Lord of time. But,
- 1Bernard, Serm. de tripl. custod.