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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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James Abbeys going to execution for Christ's sake, as he went along he gave his money and his clothes ⟨p. 292⟩to one and another, till he had given all away to his shirt; whereupon one of the Sheriffs men fell a-scoffing and deriding of him, and told him, that he was a madman, and an heretic, and not to be believed; but as soon as the good man was executed, this wretch was struck mad, and threw away his clothes, and cried out, that James Abbeys was a good man, and gone to Heaven, but he was a wicked man and was damned, and thus he continued crying out till his death: Certainly he that derides, or smites a man for walking according to the word of the Lord, the Lord will first or last so smite and wound that mans Conscience, that all the Physicians in the world shall not heal it.
James Abyes going to execution for Christ's sake, as he went along he gave his money and his cloaths ⟨p. 292⟩to one and another, till he had given all away to his shirt; whereupon one of the Sheriffs men fell a-scoffing and deriding of him, and told him, that he was a madman, and an heretick, and not to be believed; but as soon as the good man was executed, this wretch was struck mad, and threw away his cloaths, and cryed out, that James Abyes was a good man, and gone to Heaven, but he was a wicked man and was damned, and thus he continued crying out till his death: Certainly he that derides, or smites a man for walking according to the word of the Lord, the Lord will first or last sosmite and wound that mans Conscience, that all the Physitians in the world shall not heal it.
Now if thy indisposition to private prayer springs from contracted guilt upon thy Conscience, then thy best way is speedily to renew thy Repentance, and greatly to judge and humble thine own soul, and so to act Faith afresh upon the ⟨p. 293⟩