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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.
I have read how that Mahomet 1the great Turk had with great rewards procured two Turks to undertake to kill Scanderbeg: These Traitors came to Scanderbeg making such a show of the detestation both of Mahomets Tyrannical Government, and vain superstition, that they were both by Scanderbeg and others reputed to be indeed the men they desired to be accounted, and so after they had learned the Principles of the Christian Religion, they were both by their ⟨p. 441⟩own desire Baptized: Soon after by a providence it so fell out, that these two Traitors fell at variance betwixt themselves, by which means the plot came to be discovered, and after due examination and confession of the fact, they were presently condemned and executed.
I have read how that Mahomet 1the great Turk had with great rewards procured two Turks to undertake to kill Scanderbeg: These Traytors came to Scanderbeg making such a shew of the detestation both of Mahomets Tyranical Government, and vain superstition, that they were both by Scanderbeg and others reputed to be indeed the men they desired to be accounted, and so after they had learned the Principles of the Christian Religion, they were both by their ⟨p. 441⟩own desire Baptized: Soon after by a providence it so fell out, that these two Traytors fell at variance betwixt themselves, by which meanes the plot came to be discovered, and after due examination and confession of the fact, they were presently condemned and executed.
- 1Turk Hist. Fol. 400.
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