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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 same Author relates a story out of Benedictus Rhrexanus, of an ungodly fellow, who on a certain 1night could not sleep, who up on the serious Consideration of Death and Eternity, and the damned lying in Hell, could not be at rest, but Eternity did still run in his mind; fa•n would he have shaken off the thoughts thereof, as gnawing worms; therefore he followed sports, and pastimes, and merry meetings, and sought out Companions like himself, and sat oftentimes so long at his Cups, that he laid his Conscience asleep, and so seemed to take some rest, but when he was awakened, his Conscience flew in his face, and ⟨p. 474⟩would still be a suggesting sad thoughts of Eternity to him; of all things in the world he could not bear it, to be kept awake in the night; but so it happened, that being sick, he was kept awake one night, and could not sleep at all, whereupon these thoughts rise in him, What is it so tedious then to be kept from sleep one night, and to lye a few hours in the dark? Oh what is it then to be kept in torments and everlasting darkness! I am here in my own house upon a soft bed in the dark, kept from sleep but one night, but to lye in flames and endless misery, how dreadful must that needs be! These and such like meditations were the happy means of this young mans conversion.
The same Author relates a story out of Benedictus Rhrexanus, of an ungodly fellow, who on a certain 1night could not sleep, who up on the serious Consideration of Death and Eternity, and the damned lying in Hell, could not be at rest, but Eternity did still run in his mind; fa•n would he have shaken off the thoughts thereof, as gnawing worms; therefore he followed sports, and pastimes, and merry meetings, and sought out Companions like himself, and sat oftentimes so long at his Cups, that he laid his Conscience asleep, and so seemed to take some rest, but when he was awakened, his Conscience flew in his face, and ⟨p. 474⟩would still be a suggesting sad thoughts of Eternity to him; of all things in the world he could not bear it, to be kept awake in the night; but so it happened, that being sick, he was kept awake one night, and could not sleep at all, whereupon these thoughts rise in him, VVhat is it so tedious then to be kept from sleep one night, and to lye a few hours in the dark? Oh what is it then to be kept in torments and everlasting darkness! I am here in my own house upon a soft bed in the dark, kept from sleep but one night, but to lye in flames and endless misery, how dreadful must that needs be! These and such like meditations were the happy means of this young mans conversion.