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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.
I commend that speech of Bernard, Nanquam abs te, absque te recedo: I never come to thee, but by thee; 1I never come from thee without thee.
- 1Bern. epist. 116.
When ever you go into your Closets, press hard after real and sensible Communion with God, that so you may come out of your Closets with some shines of God upon your spirits; as Moses came down from the Mount with his 1face shining. O do not take up in your Closet-prayers, or tears, or joys, or enlargements; but labour and long to enjoy that inward and close Fellowship with God in your Closets, as may leave such a choice, and sweet favour of God, both upon your hearts and lives, as others may be forced to say, surely 2these have been with Jesus. 'Tis sad when Christians return from their Closets to their shops, their trades, their families, their commerce, &c. without the least visible rays of divine glory upon them.
When ever you go into your Closets, press hard after real and sensible Communion with God, that so you may come out of your Closets with some shines of God upon your spirits; as Moses came down from the Mount with his 1face shining. O do not take up in your Closet-prayers, or tears, or joyes, or enlargements; but labour and long to enjoy that inward and close Fellowship with God in your Closets, as may leave such a choice, and sweet favour of God, both upon your hearts and lives, as others may be forced to say, surely 2these have been with Jesus. 'Tis sad when Christians return from their Closets to their shops, their trades, their families, their commerce, &c. without the least visible rayes of divine glory upon them.