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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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Fourthly, The Rod is to purge out that vanity and folly that is bound up in the heart of the Child, Prov. 22. 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a Child, but the Rod of correction shall drive it far from him. The Rod is an Ordinance, as well as the Word; and such Parents that use it as an Ordinance (praying and weeping over it) shall find it effectual, for the chasing away of evil out of their Children's heart. Eli and David were two very choice men, and yet by their fondness on one hand, and neglect of this Ordinance on the other hand, they ruined their sons, and whether they did not undo their souls, I shall not at this time stand to ⟨image 18⟩enquire. When Moses cast away his Rod, it became a Serpent; 1and so when Parents cast away the Rod of correction, 'tis ten to one but that their Children become the brood of the Serpent. Prov. 13. 24. He that spareth his Rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Not only the care, but also the cure of the Child, so far as the Rod will reach, lies upon the hands of the Parent.
Fourthly, The Rod is to purge out that vanity and folly that is bound up in the heart of the Child, Prov. 22. 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a Child, but the Rod of correction shall drive it far from him. The Rod is an Ordinance, as well as the Word; and such Parents that use it as an Ordinance (praying and weeping over it) shall find it effectual, for the chasing away of evil out of their Childrens heart. Eli and David were two very choice men, and yet by their fondness on one hand, and neglect of this Ordinance on the other hand, they ruined their sons, and whether they did not undo their souls, I shall not at this time stand to ⟨image 18⟩enquire. When Moses cast away his Rod, it became a Serpent; 1and so when Parents cast away the Rod of correction, 'tis ten to one but that their Children become the brood of the Serpent.