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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.
First, When the body is drowsy 1and sleepy, this is a very unfit season for closet-prayer. Take heed of laying cushions of sloth under your knees, or pillows of idleness under your elbows, or of mixing nods with your petitions, or of being drowsily devoted when you draw near to God in your closets.
First, When the body is drowsie 1and sleepy, this is a very unfit season for closet-prayer. Take heed of laying cushions of sloath under your knees, or pillows of idlenesse under your elbows, or of mixing nods with your petitions, or of being drowsily devoted when you draw neer to God in your closets.
Secondly, When a mans head and heart is filled with worldly 1cares and distractions, this is a very unfit season for closet-prayer.
When Dinah must needs be gadding abroad to see fashions, Shechem, Prince of that country, meets with her, and forces her virginity. So when our hearts Dinah-like must needs be a roving and gadding abroad after the things of the world, then Satan, the Prince of the air, usually seizes upon us, commits