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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
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My eighth Advice and Counsel is this, In all your Closet-prayers, thirst, and long after communion 1with God; in all your private retirements, take up in nothing below fellowship with God, in nothing below a sweet and spiritual enjoyment of God. Psal. 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his Temple. The Temple of the Lord, without communion with the Lord of the Temple, will not satisfy David's Soul. Psal 42. 1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the Water brooks, so panteth ⟨p. 348⟩my soul after thee, O God. My Soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God!
My eighth Advice and Counsel is this, In all your Closet-prayers, thirst, and long after communion 1with God; in all your private retirements, take up in nothing below fellowship with God, in nothing below a sweet and spiritual enjoyment of God. Psal. 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his Temple. The Temple of the Lord, without communion with the Lord of the Temple, will not satisfie David's Soul. Psal 42. 1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the Water brooks, so panteth ⟨p. 348⟩my soul after thee, O God. My Soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appeare before God!
- 1Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3. Psal. 73. ult.