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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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Ninthly, I answer, If thou art a gracious servant, then the near and dear relations that is between God and thee, and the choice privileges 1that thou art interested in, calls aloud for private prayer. As thou art thy Masters servant, so thou art the Lords free-man, 1 Cor. 7. 22, 23. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lords free-man: Likewise also, he that is called being free, is Christs servant. Ye are bought with a price: be not ye the servants of men, Either when they command you things forbidden by Christ, or forbid you things commanded by Christ; or when they would exercise a dominion over your faith, or a lord-ship over your consciences. Suffer not your selves in spiritual things to be brought into such bondage by any men or Masters in ⟨p. 194⟩the world, as not to use that freedom 2and liberty that Christ hath purchased for you with his dearest blood. No servants are to serve their masters in opposition to Christ; nor no servants are to serve their masters as spiritual masters; Nor no servants are to serve their masters as supreme masters, but as subordinate masters, Ephes. 6. 5, 6, 7. And as every gracious servant is the Lords free-man, so every gracious servant is the Lords friend, Isa. 41. 8. James▪ 2. 23. John 15. 13, 14, 15. And as every gracious servant is the Lords friend, so every gracious servant is the Lords son, Gal. 4. 5, 6. Rom. 8. 16. And as every gracious servant is the Lords son, so every gracious servant is the Lords spouse, Hos. 2. 19, 20