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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.
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.
This was Bernards temptation, who being a little assisted in duty, could stroak his own head with bene fecisti Bernarde, 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 goe away and stroak himself, 1and blesse himself, and hug himself, and warm himself with the sparks, with the fire of his own kindling.
- 1Isa. 50, ult.
Adam was to win life and wear 1it, he was to be saved by his doings, Do this and live: Hence it is that 2all his posterity are so prone to seek for salvation by doing; What ⟨p. 318⟩shall we do to be saved? and good Master, 3what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Like Father, like Son. But if our own duties or doings were sufficient to save us, to what purpose did Christ leave his Fathers bosom, and lay down his dearest life, &c. Closet-duties rested in may pacify Conscience for a time; but this will not always hold: When Ephraim saw his sickness, and