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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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Secondly, Believing times are sealing times, Ephes. 1. 13. When they were in the very exercise of their faith, when they were acting 1of their faith (for so much the Original imports) the Spirit came and sealed them up to the day of redemption. He that honours Christ by frequent actings of faith on him, him will Christ honour, by setting ⟨p. 233⟩his seal and mark upon him.
Secondly, Beleeving times are sealing times, Ephes. 1. 13. When they were in the very exercise of their faith, when they were acting 1of their faith (for so much the Original imports) the Spirit came and sealed them up to the day of redemption. He that honours Christ by frequent actings of faith on him, him will Christ honour, by setting ⟨p. 233⟩his seal and mark upon him.
Thirdly, Humbling times, mourning times, are sealing times. When a holy man was asked, which were the joyfullest days, the comfortablest days, that ever he enjoyed, he answered, his mourning days. His mourning days were his joyfullest days; and therefore he cried out, O give me my mourning days, give me my mourning days, for they were my joyfullest days. Those were days wherein God sealed up his everlasting love to his soul,