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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.
Oh how wise are the men of this world, so to order all their civil affairs, that no one business shall interfere with another; they set apart for each business a convenient proportion of time; they allot an hour for one business, two for another, three for another, &c. O that we were as wise for our souls, as wise for eternity, as they are for this world. O that our hearts would so consult with our heads, that we may never want a convenient time to seek God in a corner. That Devil that loves to set one man against another, and one Nation against another, and one Christian against another, that Devil loves to set one Ordinance against another, and one Duty against another: Hence tis that on the one hand he works some to cry up public Prayers, in opposition to secret Prayer; and one the other hand ⟨p. 460⟩he works others to cry up private Duties in opposition to all public Duties; whereas all Christians stand obliged by God, so to manage one sort of Duties, as not to shut out another sort of Duties. Every Christian must find time and room for every Duty incumbent upon him. But,
Oh how wise are the men of this world, so to order all their civil affairs, that no one business shall interferre with another; they set apart for each business a convenient proportion of time; they allot an hour for one business, two for another, three for another, &c. O that we were as wise for our souls, as wise for eternity, as they are for this world. O that our hearts would so consult with our heads, that we may never want a convenient time to seek God in a corner. That Devil that loves to set one man against another, and one Nation against another, and one Christian against another, that Devil loves to set one Ordinance against another, and one Duty against another: Hence tis that on the one hand he works some to cry up publick Prayers, in opposition to secret Prayer; and one the other hand ⟨p. 460⟩he works others to cry up private Duties in opposition to all publick Duties; whereas all Christians stand oblieged by God, so to manage one sort of Duties, as not to shut out another sort of Duties. Every Christian must find time and room for every Duty incumbent upon him. But,