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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 Christ knocked and called, like a friend in his journey, only to enquire how it was with her, or to speak to her at the Window: O no! he speaks plainly, he speaks with authority, Open to me.
O but it may-be Christ knockt and call'd, like a friend in his journey, only to enquire how it was with her, or to speak to her at the Window: O no! he speaks plainly, he speaks with authority, Open to me.
O but it may-be she had no power to open the door: O yes; for when he commands his people to open, he 1lends them a key to open the door, that he may enter in. Infused grace is a living principle that will enable the Soul to open to Christ. ⟨p. 283⟩If a man be not a free agent to work and act by the helps of grace received, to what purpose are counsels, commands, exhortations, and directions, given to perform this, and that, and t'other work. And certainly, it is our greatest honour and happiness in this world to co-operate with God in those things which concern his own glory, and our own internal, and eternal good.
O but it may-be she had no power to open the door: O yes; for when he commands his people to open, he 1lends them a key to open the door, that he may enter in. Infused grace is a living principle that will enable the Soul to open to Christ. ⟨p. 283⟩If a man be not a free agent to work and act by the helps of grace received, to what purpose are counsels, commands, exhortations, and directions, given to perform this, and that, and t'other work. And certainly, it is our greatest honour and happinesse in this world to co-operate with God in those things which concern his own glory, and our own internal, and eternal good.