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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 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 1Rod.
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 bryers 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 1Rod.
If we should come into a Painters or a Limners shop, and see a Picture half drawn, it might trouble us and startle us, if it did not fright us and amaze us; but yet when the Picture is perfected, completed, and finished, it may prove a very beauteous, lovely, taking piece. The Application is easy. Look as every Judgment, every Affliction, every Rod hath its black, dark side; so every Judgement, every affliction hath its bright side to. Mow 'tis the wisdom of a ⟨image 37⟩Christian to look on the bright side of the Rod, the Cloud; as well as 'tis his work, to look on the dark side of the Rod, the Cloud: When a Christian looks upon the dark side of the Cloud, he should be humbled and abased; but when he looks upon the bright side of the Cloud, he should be comforted and cheered. He