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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, Some may further §Obj. 4.object and say, God is very well acquainted with all our wants, necessities, straits, trials; and there is no moving of him to bestow any favours upon us, which he doth not ⟨p. 252⟩intend to bestow upon us, whether we pray in our closets or no; and therefore to what purpose do you press secret prayer so hard upon us? &c.
Fourthly, Some may further §Obj. 4.object and say, God is very well acquainted with all our wants, necessities, straits, tryals; and there is no moving of him to bestow any favours upon us, which he doth not ⟨p. 252⟩intend to bestow upon us, whether we pray in our closets or no; and therefore to what purpose do you presse secret prayer so hard upon us? &c.
To this Objection I shall give these Answers.
First, That this Objection lies as strong against Family Prayer, and Public Prayer, as it doth against Private Prayer. God knows all thy wants and necessities, all thy straits and trials, &c. and therefore what needest thou pray in thy Family, what needest thou attend Public Prayers in the Communion of Saints. There is no wringing of any mercy out of the hands of Heaven, which God doth not intend to bestow: This Objection faces all kind of Prayer, and fights against all kinds of Prayer. But