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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.
First, They above Heaven (I mean this visible heaven) continually stand before God (as they say) praising, and lauding, and magnifying of his name.
Secondly, They in Heaven are there seated to move and rule, and govern the Stars.
Thirdly, They under Heaven, are some to rule Kingdoms, others Provinces, others Cities, others particular Men.
Thirdly, They under Heaven, are some to rule Kingdomes, others Provinces, others Cities, others particular Men.
Several Christian writers that have written of the Hierarchy of ⟨p. 417⟩Angels, follow these opinions. Now if we should take these surmises for real truths, then it will follow, that the highest Angels do not minister to the Saints, but only and immediately to God himself, which is 1expressly contrary to several Scriptures, as you may see by them in the Margin among others. When I was upon the Ministration of the blessed Angels, I did then prove in several exercises (as some of you may remember) That all the Angels in Heaven, were commanded and commissionated by God, to be serviceable and useful to the heirs of Salvation. Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent forth to minister for them, who shall be heirs of Salvation? The Devil knows he is no loser, and the curious soul but a very little gainer, if he can but persuade him to spend most of his precious time in studying and poring upon the most dark, mysterious and hidden things of God. He that affects to read the Revelations of John, more than his plain Epistles; or Daniels prophesies,