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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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Thirdly, Saints are members of Christ's body: and what man will cut off a member because of a scab or wart that is upon it? What man will cut off his Nose, saith Luther, because there is some filth in it?
Fourthly, Saints are Christ's purchase, they are his possession, 1his inheritance: Now what man is there that will cast away, or cast off his purchase, his possession, his inheritance, because of thorns, bushes, or briars that grow upon it?
Fourthly, Saints are Christ's purchase, they are his possession, 1his inheritance: Now what man is there that will cast away, or cast off his purchase, his possession, his inheritance, because of thorns, bushes, or bryars that grow upon it?
- 1Ephes. 1. 22, 23. 1 Cor. 6. u't. Ch. 7. 23, 1 Pet. 13. 18, 19, 20.
Fifthly, Saints are in a marriage 1covenant with God: Now what husband is there that will cast off ⟨p. 275⟩his wife for her failings and infirmities? So long as a man is in covenant with God, his infirmities can't cut him off from Gods mercy and grace. Now 'tis certain a man may have very many infirmities upon him, and yet not break his covenant with God; for no sin breaks a mans covenant with God, but such as unties the marriage knot. As in other marriages every offence or infirmity doth not disannul the marriage union; it i only the breach of the marriage vow, viz. adultery, that unties the marriage knot: So here, 'tis only those sins which breaks the covenant, which unties the marriage knot between God and the Soul: 1. When men freely subject to any lust as a new master. Or, 2. When men take another husband;