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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
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Infirmities and weaknesses, I confess, do hang upon me, they are inherent in me, and they do too often issue and flow from me; but as for enormities or wickednesses, neither my censorious Friends, nor yet my worst enemies, no, nor yet my own Conscience, will ever be able to make any just, or clear proof against me: O Lord, I have many spots upon me, but if there be any upon me that are not the spots of thy People, let me see them, let me know them, that I may abhor my self, and justify thee, and that I may say, my Friends are righteous in their censures, and I have done wickedly before the Lord. Sometimes Afflictions are sent only for trial and instruction, ⟨image 27⟩and not at all for sin; this is evident in the case of Job, and in the case of the Blind man, whose afflictions, though they were very great and grievous, 1yet were they not for sin, but for trial.
Infirmities and weaknesses, I confesse, do hang upon me, they are inherent in me, and they do too often issue and flow from me; but as for enormities or wickednesses, neither my censorious Friends, nor yet my worst enemies, no, nor yet my own Conscience, will ever be able to make any just, or clear proof against me: O Lord, I have many spots upon me, but if there be any upon me that are not the spots of thy People, let me see them, let me know them, that I may abhor my self, and justifie thee, and that I may say, my Friends are righteous in their censures, and I have done wickedly before the Lord. Sometimes Afflictions are sent only for tryal and instruction, ⟨image 27⟩and not at all for sin; this is evident in the case of Job, and in the case of the Blind man, whose afflictions, though they were very great and grievous, 1yet were they not for sin, but for tryal.