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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.
The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us for ever, if we had not an Advocate 1with the father. Those years, those months, those weeks, those days, those hours that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. All omissions of duty. will more and more unfit the soul for duty: A Key thrown by, gathers rust: A Pump not used, will be hardly got to go: And Armour not used, will be hardly made bright, &c. Look as sinful commissions will stab the Soul; so sinful omissions will starve the Soul. Such as live 2in the neglect of private prayer may well cry out, Our leanness, our ⟨p. 279⟩leanness. And therefore away with all these plea's and reasonings about infirmities, and weaknesses, and indispositions, & address your selves to Closet-prayer. But,
The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undoe us for ever, if we had not an Advocate 1with the father. Those years, those months, those weeks, those days, those hours that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. All omissions of duty. will more and more unfit the soul for duty: A Key thrown by, gathers rust: A Pump not used, will be hardly got to go: And Armour not used, will be hardly made bright, &c. Look as sinful commissions will stab the Soul; so sinful omissions will starve the Soul. Such as live 2in the neglect of private prayer may well cry out, Our leanness, our ⟨p. 279⟩leanness. And therefore away with all these plea's and reasonings about infirmities, and weaknesses, and indispositions, & address your selves to Closet-prayer. But,
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