A29703:453
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.
So Mr. Glover the Martyr was deserted in Prison, but as he was going to the stake he looked back, and cried out to his friend, He is come, he is come, meaning the Comforter, and so he laid down his life with joy.
So Mr. Glover the Martyr was deserted in Prison, but as he was going to the stake he lookt back, and cried out to his friend, He is come, he is come, meaning the Comforter, and so he laid down his life with joy.
Rachel wept, and would not be comforted; she gave so much way to weeping, that she would not give the least way to comfort: and so 'tis many times with the choicest Saints. My soul refused to be comforted. 1'Tis not my purpose at present to insist on the several ways, whereby the people of God refuse comfort, and fall short of those strong consolations▪ which God is ⟨p. 226⟩willing that they should receive. The Sun may operate where it doth not shine, and a man may be in a state of salvation, and yet want consolation, a man may fear the 2Lord, and obey the voice of his servant, and yet walk in darkness and see no light. There is no Christian but may sometime have trouble in his conscience, and grief in his heart, and tears in his eyes, and fears and questionings in his soul, whether God be his Father, and whether Christ be his Redeemer, & whether Mercy belongs to him, yea, whether any Promise in the Book of God belongs to him? &c. Joy and comfort are those dainties, 3those sweet-meets of heaven, that God doth not every day feast his people with; every day is not a wedding day, nor every day is not a harvest day, nor every day is not a summers day. The fatted Calf is 4