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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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Sixthly, They are all comforted by the Spirit, Acts. 9. 31. They 1walked in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the holy Ghost▪ Rom. 14. 17. For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy-Ghost. 1 Thes. 1. 6. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy-Ghost. Not that all Christians have always actual comfort or actual joy; O no: For as the Air is sometimes clear, & sometimes cloudy; and as the Sea is sometimes ebbing, & sometimes flowing: so the comforts ⟨p. 225⟩and joys of the people of God are sometimes ebbing, and sometimes flowing, sometimes clear and sometimes cloudy.
Sixthly, They are all comforted by the Spirit, Acts. 9. 31. They 1walked in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the holy Ghost▪ Rom. 14. 17. For the Kingdom of God is not meat and dri•k, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy-Ghost. 1 Thes. 1. 6. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy-Ghost. Not that all Christians have alwayes actual comfort or actual joy; O no: For as the Air is sometimes clear, & sometimes cloudy; and as the Sea is sometimes ebbing, & sometimes flowing: so the comforts ⟨p. 225⟩and joyes of the people of God are sometimes ebbing, and sometimes flowing, sometimes clear and sometimes cloudy.