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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.
Though Closet-duties are weak in themselves, yet when a man hath Communion with God in them, then they prove exceeding powerful to the casting down of strong holds, and vain imaginations, 1and every high thing and thought, that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God. When a ⟨p. 381⟩man comes out of his Closet with a heart more fully and steadfastly set against every known sin, but especially against his bosom sin, his darling sin, his Delilah that he played and sported himself most with, and that he hath hugged with pleasure and delight in his bosom, then certainly he hath had private Communion with God.
Though Closet-duties are weak in themselves, yet when a man hath Communion with God in them, then they prove exceeding powerful to the casting down of strong holds, and vain imaginations, 1and every high thing and thought, that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God. When a ⟨p. 381⟩man comes out of his Closet with a heart more fully and stedfastly set against every known sin, but especially against his bosome sin, his darling sin, his Dalilah that he played and sported himself most with, and that he hath hugged with pleasure and delight in his bosome, then certainly he hath had private Communion with God.
- 1• Cor. 10. 4, 5.