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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 was too quick for her, it may-be he gave but a knock and a call, and was gone before she could rise and open the door: O no! Christ stayed till his head was filled with dew, and his locks with the drops of the night; which most passionate expression, notes the tender goodness, patience and gentleness of our Lord Jesus, who endures far greater and harder things for his Spouses sake, than ever Jacob did for his Rachels sake. After Christ had suffered much for her sake, and waited her leisure a long while, she very unkindly, and very unmannerly, and unworthily turns her back upon all his sweet and comfortable compellations, and blessed and bleeding embracements, and turns him off to look his lodging in some other place; so that he might well have said, Is this thy kindness to thy Friend, thy Husband, thy Lord, to suffer him to stand bareheaded, ⟨p. 285⟩and that in foul weather, yea, in the night time, wooing, entreating, and beseeching admittance; and yet to turn him off as one in whom thy soul could take no pleasure.
O but it may-be Christ was too quick for her, it may-be he gave but a knock and a call, and was gone before she could rise and open the door: O no! Christ stayed till his head was filled with dew, and his locks with the drops of the night; which most passionate expression, notes the tender goodness, patience and gentlenesse of our Lord Jesus, who endures far greater and harder things for his Spouses sake, than ever Jacob did for his Rachels sake. After Christ had suffered much for her sake, and waited her leasure a long while, she very unkindly, and very unmannerly, and unworthily turns her back upon all his sweet and comfortable compellations, and blessed and bleeding embracements, and turns him off to look his lodging in some other place; so that he might well have said, Is this thy kindness to thy Friend, thy Husband, thy Lord, to suffer him to stand bareheaded, ⟨p. 285⟩and that in foul weather, yea, in the night time, wooing, intreating, and beseeching admittance; and yet to turn him off as one in whom thy soul could take no pleasure.