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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.
1. I• these kinds of reasonings or arguings were sufficient to shut private prayer out of doors, where lives that man or woman, that husband or wife, that father or child that master or servant that 1would ever be found in the practise of that duty? Where is there a person under heaven whose heart is not full of infirmities, weaknesses, follies and vanities; and whose body and soul is not too often indisposed to closet duties? 1 Kings ⟨p. 263⟩8. 46. If they sin against thee, for there is no man that sinneth not, &c. Eccl. 27. 20. For there is not a just man upon the earth that doth good and sinneth not. Prov. 20. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Job. 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 9. 30, 31. If I wash my self with Snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. Job 9. 20. If I justify my self, my own mouth shall condemn me; If I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Psal. 143. 2. And enter not into judgement with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. James 3. 2. For in many things we offend all.