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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.
The Apostle sadly complains of some in his time who wallowed in secret sins. Ephes. 5. 2. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret: He speaks of such as lived in secret fornications and uncleanness, there were many that had put on a form of godliness, who yet did allow ⟨p. 430⟩themselves in the secret actings of abominable wickedness and filthiness, as if there were no God to behold them, nor Conscience to accuse them, nor Judgement day to arraign them, nor Justice to condemn them, nor Hell to torment them. O how infinitely odious must they be in the eyes of a holy God, who can highly court and complement him in public, and yet are so bold as to provoke him to his face in private; these are like those whores, who pretend a great deal of affection and respect to their Husbands abroad, and yet at home will play the Harlots before their Husbands eyes.
The Apostle sadly complains of some in his time who wallowed in secret sins. Ephes. 5. 2. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret: He speaks of such as lived in secret fornications and uncleanness, there were many that had put on a form of godliness, who yet did allow ⟨p. 430⟩themselves in the secret actings of abominable wickedness and filthiness, as if there were no God to behold them, nor Conscience to accuse them, nor Judgement day to arraign them, nor Justice to condemn them, nor Hell to torment them. O how infiniitely odious must they be in the eyes of a holy God, who can highly court and complement him in publick, and yet are so bold as to provoke him to his face in private; these are like those whores, who pretend a great deal of affection and respect to their Husbands abroad, and yet at home will play the Harlots before their Husbands eyes.