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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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That all the Children of God have the Spirit of God, may be further made evident by an induction of these seven particulars.
First, They are all sanctified by the Spirit, 1 Cor. 6. 11. Ye are sanctified by the Spirit of our God. I do not ⟨p. 217⟩say, that they are all equally sanctified by the Spirit, but I say, they are all really sanctified by the Spirit. Though all the servants of Christ have their Talents, yet all have not 1their ten Talents, nor all have not their five Talents, nor all have not their two Talents, some have only their one Talent. Though Benjamins Mess was five times as much 2as his brethren's Mess, yet every one of his brethren had their M•ss; so though some Christians have five times more measures of the Spirit, and more measures of light, of love, of holiness, of heavenly mindedness, &c. than others have; yet, every Christian hath some measures of the Spirit, and some measures of grace and holiness, &c. Though some are Babes in Christ, 3and others are Children in Christ; though some are young Men in Christ, and others are old Men in Christ, yet every one of them is 4born of the Spirit of Christ. Though none of the people of God in this life have the Spirit in perfection, ⟨p. 218⟩yet every one of them have so much of the Spirit as will bring him to salvation; every Christian hath so much of the Spirit as will bring Christ and his Soul together: and therefore without all peradventure, every Christian hath so much of the Spirit, as will at last bring Heaven and his Soul together.