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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
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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, Exod. 8. 20, 21, 22, 23. Chap. 9, 23, 24, 25, 26. Ponder seriously upon these Scriptures. Gods shooting his arrows into one Town, and not into another, into one City, and not into another, into ⟨image 41⟩one Kingdom, and not into another, into one family, & not into another, doth sufficiently evidence, that all diseases, and sicknesses, are limited by the Holy One of Israel, in respect of places.
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 forbad them Goshen, Exod. 8. 20, 21, 22, 23. Chap. 9, 23, 24, 25, 26. Ponder seriously upon these Scriptures. Gods shooting his arrows into one Town, and not into another, into one City, and not into another, into ⟨image 41⟩one Kingdome, and not into another, into one family, & not into another, doth sufficiently evidence, that all diseases, and sicknesses, are limited by the Holy One of Israel, in respect of places.
Thirdly, It is a very great point of Faith, to believe that all sicknesses, and diseases, are limited by God in respect of persons; that they are so, is evident in that Psal. 91. 3,—8. Isa 65. 12. But who lives in the faith of this truth? Sometimes in the same house one is infected, and the other is not; sometimes in the same bed, the one is smitten, and the other is not; sometimes at the same table, the one is taken away, and the other is left, &c. and this doth roundly evidence and witness, that all sicknesses and diseases are limited by