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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.
First, that God is the author of all the diseases, maladies, and sicknesses, that be in the World, and that he sets them on and call them off at his own ⟨image 41⟩good will and pleasure, Amos 13. 6. Is there any evil in the City, and hath not the Lord done it? He speaks of the evil of punishment, and not of the evil of sin. It was a mad Principle among the Manichees, who referred all calamities to the Devil for their author, as if there could be evil in the City, and the Lord have no hand in it.
First, that God is the author of all the diseases, malladies, and sicknesses, that be in the World, and that he sets them on and call them off at his own ⟨image 41⟩good will and pleasure, Amos 13. 6. Is there any evil in the City, and hath not the Lord done it? He speaks of the evil of punishment, and not of the evil of sin. It was a mad Principle among the Manichees, who refer'd all calamities to the Devil for their author, as if there could be evil in the City, and the Lord have no hand in it.
Secondly, It is a great point of Faith to believe, that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God, in respect of places. God sent diseases of all sorts into Egypt, but he forbade them Goshen,