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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.
If thou goest abroad, 1I will follow thee, and make thee afraid of every Leaf that wags; thou shalt look upon every Bush as an armed man, and upon every man as a Devil: If thou stayest at home, I will follow thee from room to room, and fill thee with horror and terror: If thou lyest down to rest, I will follow thee with fearful dreams and tormenting apparitions: If thou goest into thy Closet▪ I will follow thee, and make thy very Closet a Hell to hold thee.
If thou goest abroad, 1I will follow thee, and make thee afraid of every Leaf that wags; thou shalt look upon every Bush as an armed man, and upon every man as a Devil: If thou stayest at home, I will follow thee from room to room, and fill thee with horrour and terrour: If thou lyest down to rest, I will follow thee with fearful dreams and tormenting apparitions: If thou goest into thy Closet▪ I will follow thee, and make thy very Closet a Hell to hold thee.
- 1Dan. 5 5.
It is storied of King Richard the ⟨p. 291⟩third, that after he had murdered his two Nephews in the Tower, guilt lay so hard upon his Conscience, that his sleeps were very unquiet; for he would often leap out of his Bed in the dark, and catching his sword in his hand (which hung by his bed side) he would go distractedly about his Chamber seeking for the Traitor.
It is storied of King Richard the