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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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Fourthly, Sin-killing, sin-mortifying, sin-subduing times are the Spirits sealing times, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, that no man knows saving he that receiveth it.
Fourthly, Sin-killing, sin-mortifying, sin-subduing times are the Spirits sealing times, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, that no man knowes saving he that receiveth it.
God will give to the victorious Christian a secret love-token, whereby his soul may rest assured of the unspeakable love of God, and of its freedom from condemnation. White▪stones were of very great use among the Romans, and among the Athenians, and served to acquit the accused in Courts of Justice. When Malefactors were accused, arraigned and condemned in their Courts, they gave them a Black stone in token of condemnation; but when they were acquitted they gave them White stones, in token of absolution: And to this practise the holy Ghost seems to ⟨p. 235⟩allude. He that is victorious over 1his lusts shall have a new Name, that is better than the names of sons and daughters; and he shall have the pardon of his sins writ in fair letters upon the white stone, so that he may run and read his absolution. The victorious Christian shall 2have assurance of the full discharge of all his sins, he shall have a clear evidence of his Justification, and a blessed assurance of his eternal Election; all which are hidden and mysterious things to all but those that have experienced and tasted what these sweet meats of Heaven mean.