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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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Fifthly, Thou sayest thou canst not pray: but if thou art a child of God, thou hast the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is a Spirit of prayer and supplication. That all ⟨p. 216⟩the Children of God have the Spirit of God is most evident in the blessed Scriptures. Take these for a taste, Zach. 12. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. Psal. 51. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from me. Rom. 8. 15. Ye have received the spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have received, not the Spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1 Thes. 4. 8. Who hath given unto us his holy spirit. 1 John 3. 2•. Hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. Chap. 4. 13. Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Fifthly, Thou sayst thou canst not pray: but if thou art a child of God, thou hast the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is a Spirit of prayer and supplication. That all ⟨p. 216⟩the Children of God have the Spirit of God is most evident in the blessed Scriptures. Take these for a taste, Zach. 12. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. Psal. 51. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from me.