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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.
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.
Let us make it our business to follow these noble examples, as ever we would so Prince it in prayer as to prevail with God. An importunate soul in prayer, is like the poor beggar, that prays and knocks, that prays and waits, that prays and works, that knocks and knits, that begs and patches, and will not stir from the door till he hath an alms. Well Friends, remember ⟨p. 339⟩this, God respects no more luke-warm prayers, than he doth luke-warm persons; and they are such that he hath threatened to spue out of his mouth. Those prayers that are but lip-labour, are lost-labour: And therefore in all your Closet-prayers, look to the fervency of your spirits.
Let us make it our businesse to follow these noble examples, as ever we would so Prince it in prayer as to prevail with God. An importunate soul in prayer, is like the poor beggar, that prayes and knocks, that prayes and waits, that prayes and works, that knocks and knits, that begs and patches, and will not stir from the door till he hath an alms. Well Friends, remember ⟨p. 339⟩this, God respects no more luke-warm prayers, than he doth luke-warm persons; and they are such that he hath threatned to spue out of his mouth. Those prayers that are but lip-labour, are lost-labour: And therefore in all your Closet-prayers, look to the fervency of your spirits.