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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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Secondly, That they shall certainly be performed, 2 Cor. 1. 20. they being all made in and through Christ; they are made first to Christ, and then to all that have union and communion with him.
Secondly, That they shall certainly be performed, 2 Cor. 1. 20. they being all made in and thorow Christ; they are made first to Christ, and then to all that have union and communion with him.
Sirtorius, saith Plutarch, paid what he promised with fair words: but so doth not God. Men many times, say and unsay; they often eat their words as soon as they have spoken them; but God will never eat the words that are gone out of his mouth, Isa. 46. 10, 11. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Sirtorius, saith Plutarch, paid what he promised with fair words: but so doth not God. Men many times, say and unsay; they often eate their words as soon as they have spoken them; but God will never eat the words that are gone out of his mouth, Isa. 46. 10, 11. My counsel shall stand, and I will doe all my pleasure: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I have purposed it, I will also doe it.
Thirdly, That they all issue from free grace, from special love, 1