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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.
I have read of one Pachomius, a soldier under Constantine the Emperor, how that his Army being almost starved for want of necessary provision, he came to a city of Christians, and they of their own charity relieved them speedily and freely; he wondering at their free and noble charity, enquired what kind of people they were, whom he saw so bountiful? it was answered, that they were Christians, whose profession it is to hurt no man, and do good to every man: hereupon Pachomius, convinced of the excellency of this Religion, threw away his Arms, and became a Christian, a Saint. Look as Husbands sometimes 1are won by the conversation of their wives without the word so Masters may sometimes be won by the gracious carriage and conversation of their servants, without the word. The servants redeeming of time for private duties upon the hardest and severest terms, may ⟨p. 189⟩be so blest to the Master, that it may issue in his conviction, conversion, and salvation. There is a may-be for it; and a very may-be should be a sufficient encouragement for every gracious servant, to do all he can to save the soul of his Master, from going down into the infernal Pit. But,
I have read of one Pachomius, a souldier under Constantine the Emperor, how that his Army being almost starved for want of necessary provision, he came to a city of Christians, and they of their own charity relieved them speedily and freely; he wondering at their free and noble charity, enquired what kind of people they were, whom he saw so bountiful? it was answered, that they were Christians, whose profession it is to hurt no man, and do good to every man: hereupon Pachomius, convinced of the excellency of this Religion, threw away his Arms, and became a Christian, a Saint. Look as Husbands sometimes 1are won by the conversation of their wives without the word so Masters may sometimes be won by the gracious carriage and conversation of their servants, without the word. The servants redeeming of time for private duties upon the hardest and severest tearms, may ⟨p. 189⟩be so blest to the Master, that it may issue in his conviction, conversion, and salvation. There is a may-be for it; and a very may-be should be a sufficient encouragement for every gracious servant, to do all he can to save the soul of his Master, from going down into the infernal Pit. But,