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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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and they that would obtain it must step to heaven before they have it. But,
Secondly, I answer. That this Objection lies as strong against Family prayer, and against all other kind of prayer, as it doth against closet prayer: He that shall upon any grounds make this Objection a great bug-bear to scare his soul from Closet Prayer; he may upon the same ground make it a great bug-bear to scare his soul not only from all other kind of prayer, but from all other duties of Religion also, whether private or public. The Spirit of this Objection ⟨p. 268⟩fights against all Religion at once; and therefore you should say to it, as Christ said to Peter, Get thee behind me Satan. But,
Secondly, I answer. That this Objection lyes as strong against Family prayer, and against all other kind of prayer, as it doth against closet prayer: He that shall upon any grounds make this Objection a great bug-bear to scare his soul from Closet Prayer; he may upon the same ground make it a great bug-bear to scare his soul not only from all other kind of prayer, but from all other duties of Religion also, whether private or publick. The Spirit of this Objection ⟨p. 268⟩fights against all Religion at once; and therefore you should say to it, as Christ said to Peter, Get thee behind me Sathan. But,
Thirdly, I answer, 'Tis not the infirmities and weaknesses of a Christian which are seen, lamented, bewailed and resisted, that can