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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 Second Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod (or by 1the raging Pestilence,) is deeply to judg your selves, and greatly to humble your souls, for that sin or sins that hath brought the Rod upon you, thus David did in that 2 Sam. 24. 10, 17. When you have found out the Achan that hath brought the Rod upon you, stone him to death, and lye humble and low under the Rod, and then the Almighty will be graciously pacified, and sweetly reconciled unto you.
The Second Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod (or by 1the raging Pestilence,) is deeply to judg your selves, and greatly to humble your souls, for that sin or sins that hath brought the Rod upon you, thus David did in that 2 Sam. 24. 10, 17. When you have found out the Achan that hath brought the Rod upon you, stone him to death, and lye humble and low under the Rod, and then the Allmighty will be graciously pacified, and sweetly reconciled unto you.
- 1Pray turn to these Scriptures 2 Chron. 28. 10. Jer. 8. 6. Ezek, 7. 15, 16.
The Third Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod, (or by the raging Pestilence,) is to view the Rod on every side; ⟨image 36⟩if there be briers on one side of the Rod, there is Rosemary on the other side of the Rod; if there be wormwood and gall at one end of the Rod, there is sweet honey at the other end of the Rod, as there was at the top of Jonathan's