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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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Fourthly, Consider that you have the examples of the very worst of men in this case. Papists are frequent in their private Devotions. And the Mahometans, what occasion soever they have, either by profit or pleasure to divert them, will yet pray five times every day. Yea, the very Heathens sacrificed to Hercules morning and evening upon the great Altar at Rome. Now shall blind nature do more than grace? But,
Fifthly, Consider, you cannot have too frequent Communion with God, you cannot have too frequent intercourse with Jesus, you cannot have your hearts too frequently filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory, and with that peace that passes understanding, you cannot have heaven too frequently brought down into your hearts, nor you cannot have your hearts too frequently carried up to heaven, and therefore you cannot be too frequent in Closet-prayer. But,
Sixthly, Consider, that you are under frequent wants, and frequent sins, and frequent snares, and frequent 1temptations, and frequent allurements, and frequent trials, and frequent cares, and frequent fears, and frequent favours; and therefore you had need be frequent with God in your Closets. But,
Sixthly, Consider, that you are under frequent wants, and frequent sins, and frequent snares, and frequent 1temptations, and frequent allurements, and frequent tryals, and frequent cares, and frequent feares, and frequent favours; and therefore you had need be frequent with God in your Closets. But,