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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.
That high-soaring (counterfeit) 1Dionysius describes the Hierarchy of Angels as exactly as if he had dwelt amongst them; he saith there are nine orders of them, which he grounds upon nine words, which are found partly in the Old Testament, and partly in the New, as Seraphims, Cherubims, Thrones, Powers, Hosts, Dominions, Principalities, Arch-Angels and Angels, and at large he describes their several natures, distinctions, and properties, as, that the first three orders are for immediate attendance on the Almighty; and the next three orders, for the general government of the creatures; and the last three orders for the particular good of Gods Elect: That the Arch-Angels surpass the beauty of Angels ten times, Principalities surpass the Arch-Angels twenty times, and that Powers surpass the Principalities ⟨p. 416⟩forty times, &c. How he came by this learning is not known; and yet this Hierarchy in these nine several orders hath passed for currant through many Ages of the Church.
That high-foaring (counterfeit) 1Dyonisius describes the Hierarchy of Angels as exactly as if he had dwelt amongst them; he saith there are nine orders of them, which he grounds upon nine words, which are found partly in the Old Testament, and partly in the New, as Seraphims, Cherubims, Thrones, Powers, Hoasts, Dominions, Principalities, Arch-Angels and Angels, and at large he describes their several natures, distinctions, and properties, as, that the first three orders are for immediate attendance on the Almighty; and the next three orders, for the general government of the creatures; and the last three orders for the particular good of Gods Elect: That the Arch-Angels surpass the beauty of Angels ten times, Principalities surpass the Arch-Angels twenty times, and that Powers surpass the Principalities ⟨p. 416⟩fourty times, &c. How he came by this learning is not known; and yet this Hierarchy in these nine several orders hath passed for currant through many Ages of the Church.
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