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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.
shall the eye of the Master keep the Servant from idling and trifling? shall the eye of the Father keep the Child from wandering and gadding? shall the eye of the Husband keep the Wife from extravagances and indecencies? shall the sharp eye of wise Cato, o• the quick eye of a near Neighbour, or the severe eye of a bosom Friend, keep thee from many enormities & vanities? & shall not the strict, the pure, ⟨p. 429⟩the jealous eye of an All-seeing God, keep thee from sinning in the secret Chamber, when all Curtains are drawn, doors bolted, and every one in the house a bed or abroad, but thee & thy Delilah? Oh what dreadful Atheism is bound up in that mans heart, who is more afraid of the eye of his Father, his Pastor, his Child, his Servant, than he is of the eye, the presence of the eternal God? O that all whom this concerns, would take such serious notice of it, as to judge themselves severely for it, as to mourn bitterly over it, as to strive mightily in prayer with God, both for the pardon of it, and for power against it.
shall the eye of the Master keep the Servant from idling and trifling? shall the eye of the Father keep the Child from wandring and gadding? shall the eye of the Husband keep the Wife from extravagancies and indecencies? shall the sharp eye of wise Cato, o• the quick eye of a neer Neighbour, or the severe eye of a bosom Friend, keep thee from many enormities & vanities? & shall not the strict, the pure, ⟨p. 429⟩the jealous eye of an All-seeing God, keep thee from sinning in the secret Chamber, when all Curtains are drawn, doors bolted, and every one in the house a bed or abroad, but thee & thy Dalilah? Oh what dreadful Atheisme is bound up in that mans heart, who is more afraid of the eye of his Father, his Pastor, his Child, his Servant, than he is of the eye, the presence of the eternal God? O that all whom this concerns, would take such serious notice of it, as to judge themselves severely for it, as to mourn bitterly over it, as to strive mightily in prayer with God, both for the pardon of it, and for power against it.