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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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Sixthly and lastly, All Christians do not a-like meet with outward interruptions, nor inward interruptions; and therefore all Christians have not a-like Communion with God in their Closets. Some Christians meet with a world of outward and inward interruptions more than others do; some Christians outward Callings, Relations, Conditions, and Stations, &c. do afford more plentiful matter and occasions, to interrupt them in their Closet-Communion with God, than other Christians Callings, Relations, Conditions, and Stations do, &c. Besides Satan is more busy with some Christians, than he is with other Christians; and corruptions work more strongly and violently in ⟨p. 361⟩some Christians, than they do in other Christians, &c. and let me add this to all the rest, that the very natural tempers of some Christians are more averse to closet duties, than the natural tempers of other Christians are; and therefore all Christians have not a-like Communion with God in their Closets, but some have more and some have less, according as God in his infinite Wisdom sees best.
Sixthly and lastly, All Christians do not a-like meet with outward interruptions, nor inward interruptions; and therefore all Christians have not a-like Communion with God in their Closets. Some Christians meet with a world of outward and inward interruptions more than others doe; some Christians outward Callings, Relations, Conditions, and Stations, &c. do afford more plentiful matter and occasions, to interrupt them in their Closet-Communion with God, than other Christians Callings, Relations, Conditions, and Stations doe, &c. Besides Satan is more busie with some Christians, than he is with other Christians; and corruptions work more strongly and violently in ⟨p. 361⟩some Christians, than they do in other Christians, &c. and let me add this to all the rest, that the very natural tempers of some Christians are more averse to closet duties, than the natural tempers of other Christians are; and therefore all Christians have not a-like Communion with God in their Closets, but some have more and some have less, according as God in his infinite Wisdome sees best.