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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.
O but it may-be he did but only knock, he should have called as well as knocked; for none but mad-men would open their doors in the night, except they knew the voice of him that knocketh: O yes, he did not only knock, but called also.
O but it may-be he did but only knock, he should have called as well as knockt; for none but mad-men would open their doors in the night, except they knew the voice of him that knocketh: O yes, he did not only knock, but cald also.
O but it may-be she did not know his voice, and therefore she would not open. No chaste wife will at unseasonable hours arise and open her doors unto a stranger, ⟨p. 282⟩especially in her husbands absence: O yes, she knew his voice, vers. 2. It is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh: She was not so fast asleep, but that she knew the voice of her Beloved from all other voices, & could tell every tittle that he said: The calls of Christ were so strong, so loud, and his pulsations so mighty, that she could not but know and confess, that it was the voice of her Beloved, though she was not so respectful and dutiful as to obey that voice.
O but it may-be she did not know his voice, and therefore she would not open. No chast wife will at unseasonable hours arise and open her doors unto a stranger, ⟨p. 282⟩especially in her husbands absence: O yes, she knew his voice, vers. 2. It is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh: She was not so fast asleep, but that she knew the voice of her Beloved from all other voices, & could tell every tittle that he said: The calls of Christ were so strong, so loud, and his pulsations so mighty, that she could not but know and confess, that it was the voice of her Beloved, though she was not so respectful and dutiful as to obey that voice.