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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.
Seventhly, Sacrament times are sealing times. In that feast of fat things, God by his Spirit seals up his love to his people, and his covenant to his people, and pardon of sin to his people, and heaven and happiness to his people. There are many precious souls that have found Christ in this Ordinance, when they could not find him in other Ordinances, though they ⟨p. 239⟩have sought him sorrowingly. In this Ordinance many a distressed soul hath been strengthened, comforted and sealed.
Seventhly, Sacrament times are sealing times. In that feast of fat things, God by his Spirit seals up his love to his people, and his covenant to his people, and pardon of sin to his people, and heaven and happiness to his people. There are many precious souls that have found Christ in this Ordinance, when they could not find him in other Ordinances, though they ⟨p. 239⟩have sought him sorrowingly. In this Ordinance many a distressed soul hath been strengthned, comforted and sealed.
I might give you many instances; take one for all. There was a gracious woman, who, after God had filled her soul with comfort, and sealed up his everlasting love to her, fell under former fears and trouble of Spirit; and being at the Lords Supper, a little before the bread was administered to her, Satan seemed to appear to her, and told her that she should not presume to eat; but at that very nick of time, the Lord was pleased to bring into her mind that passage in the Canticles, Eat, O my friends. 1But notwithstanding this, Satan still continued terrifying of her; and when she had eaten, he told her that she should not drink; but then the Lord brought that second clause of the Verse to her remembrance, Drink, yea, drink abundantly (or, be drunk, as the Hebrew hath it) my beloved (or, my loves, as the Hebrew ⟨p. 240⟩