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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Philo saith, That the primitive Christians were called Tillers, because as husbandmen till their fields and manure their grounds, so did they teach their Families, and nurture their Children and servants with good instructions O what choice teachings of the spirit were these primitive Christians under, who made it so much their business, their work, to teach those that were under their ⟨p. 222⟩charge. So John. 1. 2, 27. But the 1anointing which ye have received of him, abideth in you: and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth. Not that we know all things simply, or that we need not a Ministry to teach and instruct us; but he speaks comparatively; you shall not be so helped by any instructions without the Spirit, as with the Spirit. The Spirit shall declare the truth as it is in Jesus, more clearly, more freely, more particularly, more certainly, more universally, more 2effectually, than any other is able to do. The Spirit, this holy unction, shall teach the Saints all things; not all things knowable, for that is impossible for finite creatures to attain unto. Who knows the motions of the heavens, the influences of the stars, the nature of the creatures, or how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child? who knows the reason why the River Nilus should overflow in the summer, when waters are at the ⟨p. 223⟩lowest; or why the load-stone should draw Iron to it, or incline to the Pole-star?
Philo saith, That the primitive Christians were called Tillers, because as husbandmen till their fields and manure their grounds, so did they teach their Families, and nurture their Children and servants with good instructions O what choice teachings of the spirit were these primitive Christians under, who made it so much their business, their work, to teach those that were under their ⟨p. 222⟩charge. So