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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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Ninthly, Observe what particular sin that is, that doth most hinder thee in holy duties and services, and that doth most interrupt thee in thy Communion with God, enquire what particular sin that is, that thy 1heart is most apt to run after, when thou art on the Mount of holy duties. Whilst the Disciples were healing diseases, and casting Devils out of other mens bodies, the proud white Devil was stirring in their own souls, as is evident by that gentle rebuke that our Saviour gives them in Luke 10. 20. In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven. There is no Duty that a Christian performs, ⟨image 34⟩but one white Devil or another, one lust or another, will be still dogging and following of him to that Duty. There is no public Duty, there is no family duty, there is no private duty, that a Christian performs, but either that white Devil, Pride, or that white Devil, Hypocrisy, or that white Devil, vain-glory, or else some one or another white Devil will follow the Soul, hard at heel to it. Now mark what that particular sin is, that most haunts thy soul, when thou art in Religious duties and services, and it may be that is the very sin that God would have subdued by the Rod. But,
Ninthly, Observe what particular sin that is, that doth most hinder thee in holy duties and services, and that doth most interrupt thee in thy Communion with God, enquire what particular sin that is, that thy 1heart is most apt to run after, when thou art on the Mount of holy duties. Whilest the Disciples were healing diseases, and casting Devils out of other mens bodies, the proud white Devil was stirring in their own souls, as is evident by that gentle rebuke that our Saviour gives them in Luke 10. 20. In this rejoyce not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoyce because your names are written in Heaven. There is no Duty that a Christian performs, ⟨image 34⟩