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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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Now mark, The Spirit of God that is in all the Saints is a Spirit of prayer and supplication, Rom. 8. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. While the child is in the womb it ⟨p. 245⟩cannot cry, but as soon as it is born it cries. Whilst Paul did lie in the womb of his natural estate, he could not pray; but no sooner was he born of the spirit, but the next news is, Behold he prayeth! Acts. 9. 11. Prayer is nothing but the turning of a mans inside outward before the Lord. The very soul of prayer lies in the pouring out of a mans soul into the bosom of God. Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the spirit of the Lord Prayer is nothing but a choice, a free, a sweet, and familiar intercourse of the soul with God. Certainly, it is a great work of the Spirit to help the Saints to pray, Gal. 4. 6. Because you are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, father. God hath no still-born children. The Gemination Abba, Father, notes fiducial, filial, and vehement affection. The first is an 1Hebrew or Syriac word, the Second a Greek, whereby is signified ⟨p. 246⟩the union of the Hebrews and Grecians, or the Jews and Gentiles, in one Church, Abba Father. What is Abba? say others, in Hebrew, Father, and it is added, because in Christ the corner stone both peoples are joined, alike becoming sons, whence soever they come; circumcision from one place, whereupon Abba, uncircumcision from another, whereupon father is named: The concord of the walls being the glory of the corner stone.
Now mark, The Spirit of God that is in all the Saints is a Spirit of prayer and supplication, Rom. 8. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. While the child is in the womb it ⟨p. 245⟩