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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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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 ⟨image 42⟩God in respect of persons, as well as in respect of places. But,
Fourthly, It is a great point of Faith, to believe that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God in respect of the degrees to which they shall arise. That God that sets bounds to the raging Sea, and that saith unto it, Thus far shalt thou go, and no further; that God sets bounds to all raging diseases and sicknesses, and saith unto them, thus far you shall go, and no further: He sets bounds to the Fever; he saith to it, go and scorch and burn up such a body so much, and no more; and to the Dropsy, go and drown such a body so much, and no more; and to the raging Pestilence, go and weaken such a body so much, and no more; and to the ⟨image 42⟩Stone, go and torment such a body so much, and no more. But,
Fourthly, It is a great point of Faith, to believe that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God in respect of the degrees to which they shall arise. That God that sets bounds to the raging Sea, and that saith unto it, Thus far shalt thou go, and no further; that God sets bounds to all raging diseases and sicknesses, and saith unto them, thus far you shall go, and no further: He sets bounds to the Feaver; he saith to it, go and scorch and burn up such a body so much, and no more; and to the Dropsie, go and drown such a body so much, and no more; and to the raging Pestilence, go and weaken such a body so much, and no more; and to the