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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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Eleventhly, Observe what that sin is, that your hearts are most apt to hide, and cloak, & cover over with the most specious, and fair pretences. Saul ⟨image 35⟩had a covetous desire, and he 1covers it over with fair pretences, as that the people would have it so, and that what was spared was for sacrifice. Caesars favour was the great 2darling in Pilates eyes, but he covers all over with washing his hands. The Scribes and Pharisees were exceeding covetous, but their long prayers, 3as a cloak, must cover all. Judas also was a man of the same mind and mettle with them, What need this wast, why was not 4this ointment sold for three hundred pence, & given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Judas (as Tertullian thinks) was pretty honest till he carried the bag; but no sooner was he in office, but he puts Conscience ⟨image 35⟩out of office, but all must be covered over with a cloak of charity. Observe what sin that is, that you are most apt to cast the Silk, or the Satin mantle over, and 'tis ten to one, but that is the sin that God would have brought under by the Rod. But,
Eleventhly, Observe what that sin is, that your hearts are most apt to hide, and cloak, & cover over with the most spetious, and fair pretences. Saul ⟨image 35⟩had a covetous desire, and he 1covers it over with fair pretences, as that the people would have it so, and that what was spared was for sacrifice. Caesars favour was the great 2