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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.
Constantine did use to write the Name of Christ over his door. When a man hath Communion with Christ in a duty, then he will write the Name of Christ, the Honour of Christ upon his duty. Some say, that the Name of Jesus was engraven upon the heart of Ignatius; sure I am, when a man hath Communion with God in a Duty, then you shall find the Honour and Glory of Jesus engraven upon that Duty. But,
Fifthly, I answer, When the performance of Closet-duties leaves the soul in a better frame, then a man hath Communion with God in them: When a man comes off from Closet-duties in a more holy frame, or in a more humble frame, or in a more spiritual ⟨p. 367⟩frame, or in a more watchful frame, or in a more heavenly frame, or in a more broken frame, or in a more quickened and enlivened frame, &c. then certainly he hath had Communion with God in those Duties. When a man comes out of his Closet, and finds the frame of his heart to be more strongly set against sin than ever, and to be more highly resolved to walk with God than ever, and to be more eminently crucified to the world than ever, and to be more divinely fixed against temptations than ever, then without all peradventure he hath had communion with God in his closet.
Fifthly, I answer, When the performance of Closet-duties leaves the soul in a better frame, then a man hath Communion with God in them: When a man comes off from Closet-duties in a more holy frame, or in a more humble frame, or in a more spiritual ⟨p. 367⟩frame, or in a more watchful frame, or in a more heavenly frame, or in a more broken frame, or in a more quickened and enlivened frame, &c. then certainly he hath had Communion with God in those Duties. When a man comes out of his Closet, and finds the frame of his heart to be more strongly set against sin than ever, and to be more highly resolved to walk with God than ever, and to be more eminently crucified to the world than ever, and to be more divinely fix't against temptations than ever, then without all peradventure he hath had communion with God in his closet.