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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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Gods dearest children may sometimes be shut up, they may with Zechariah, for a time, be struck 1dumb and not able to speak, Psal. 77. 4. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Psal. 38. 9. Lord; all my desire is before thee: and my groaning is not hid from thee. Gods dearest children have sometimes been so shut up, that they have been able to say nothing, nor to do nothing but groan. A child of God may sometimes meet with such a blow from God, from Conscience, from ⟨p. 203⟩Scripture, from Satan, from the World, that may for a time so astonish him, that he may not be able to speak to God, nor speak to others, nor speak to his own heart. Look as the holy Spirit is not always a teaching Spirit, nor always a leading Spirit, nor always a comforting Spirit, nor always a sealing Spirit, nor always a witnessing Spirit, nor always an assuring Spirit to any of the Saints; so he is not always a supplicating Spirit in any of the Saints. When he is grieved, vexed, quenched, provoked, he may suspend his gracious influences, and deny the soul his assistance; and what can a Christian then say or do? But,
Gods dearest children may sometimes be shut up, they may with Zacharias, for a time, be struck 1dumb and not able to speak, Psal. 77. 4. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Psal. 38. 9. Lord; all my desire is before thee: and my groaning is not hid from thee. Gods dearest children have sometimes been so shut up, that they have been able to say nothing, nor to doe nothing but groan. A child of God may sometimes meet with such a blow from God, from Conscience, from ⟨p. 203⟩Scripture, from Satan, from the World, that may for a time so astonish him, that he may not be able to speak to God, nor speak to others, nor speak to his own heart. Look as the holy Spirit is not always a teaching Spirit, nor always a leading Spirit, nor always a comforting Spirit, nor alwayes a sealing Spirit, nor alwayes a witnessing Spirit, nor alwayes an assuring Spirit to any of the Saints; so he is not alwayes a supplicating Spirit in any of the Saints. When he is grieved, vexed, quenched, provoked, he may suspend his gracious influences, and deny the soul his assistance; and what can a Christian then say or do? But,