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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.
The Phoenix gathers sweet odoriferous sticks in Arabia together, and then blows them with her wings, and burns her self with them; so do many shining professors burn themselves by resting in their duties and services. You know in Noah's flood all that were not in the Ark, though they climbed up the tallest Trees, and the highest mountains and hills, yet were really drowned; so let men ⟨p. 317⟩climb up to this duty and that, yet if they don't get into Christ, they will be really damned. 'Tis not thy Closet, but thy Christ that must save thee. If a man be not interested in Christ, he may perish with Our Father in his mouth. 'Tis as natural to a man to rest in his duties, as 'tis for him to rest in his bed.
The Phenix gathers sweet odoriferous sticks in Arabia together, and then blows them with her wings, and burns her self with them; so doe many shining professors burn themselves by resting in their duties and services. You know in Noah's flood all that were not in the Ark, though they climbed up the tallest Trees, and the highest mountains and hills, yet were really drowned; so let men ⟨p. 317⟩climb up to this duty and that, yet if they don't get into Christ, they will be really damned. 'Tis not thy Closet, but thy Christ that must save thee. If a man be not interested in Christ, he may perish with Our Father in his mouth. 'Tis as natural to a man to rest in his duties, as 'tis for him to rest in his bed.
This was Bernards temptation, who being a little assisted in duty, could stroke his own head with been fecisti Bernard, O Bernard this was gallantly done, now cheer up thy self. Ah how apt is man, when he hath been a little assisted, heated, melted, enlarged, &c. in a way of duty, to go away and stroke himself, 1and bless himself, and hug himself, and warm himself with the sparks, with the fire of his own kindling.