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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.
Hudson the Martyr deserted at the Stake, went from under his Chain, and having prayed fervently he was comforted immediately, and suffered valiantly.
I have read of one Giles of Brussels a Dutch Martyr, who was so fervent in his prayer, kneeling by ⟨p. 338⟩himself in some secret place of the Prison where he was, that he seemed to forget himself; and being called to his meat, he neither heard nor saw who stood by him, till he was lifted up by the arms, and then he would speak gently to them, as one awaked out of a Trance.
I have read of one Giles of Bruxels a Dutch Martyr, who was so fervent in his prayer, kneeling by ⟨p. 338⟩himself in some secret place of the Prison where he was, that he seemed to forget himself; and being called to his meat, he neither heard nor saw who stood by him, till he was lifted up by the armes, and then he would speak gently to them, as one awaked out of a Trance.
So Gregory Nazianzen, speaking 1of his sister Gorgonia, saith, that in the vehemency of her prayer, she came to a Religious impudency with God, so as to threaten heaven, and tell God, that she would never depart from his Altar, till she had her petition granted.
- 1Paulin. Epist. lib. 1. Epist. 4.