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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.
Now for the better management of this great Duty, viz. Closet-prayer, I beseech you take my advice and counsel in these 11. following particulars.
First, Be frequent in Closet-prayer, and not now and then only. He will never make any yearnings of Closet-prayer, that is not frequent in Closet-prayer: Now that this Counsel may stick, Consider.
First, Other eminent Servants of the Lord have been frequent in this blessed work. Nehem. 1. 6. Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the Prayer of thy Servant, which I pray before thee ⟨p. 298⟩day and night. So Daniel, he kneeled 1upon his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before time. So David, My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, and in the evening will 2I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. So Psal. 88. 13. But unto thee have I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. So