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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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Fifthly, It is a very great point of Faith, to believe that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God, as to their continuance: God saith to one disease, go hang upon such a man, so many years; to another, go hang up such a man but a few years; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a year; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few months; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few weeks; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few days; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few hours, &c. and accordingly it cometh to pass. But,
Fifthly, It is a very great point of Faith, to believe that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God, as to their continuance: God saith to one disease, go hang upon such a man, so many years; to another, go hang up such a man but a few years; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a year; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few months; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few weeks; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few dayes; and to another, go hang upon such a man but a few hours, &c. and accordingly it cometh to pass. But,
The eighth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod, (or ⟨image 43⟩by the raging Pestilence) is, to 1get more weaned, and more mortified affections to all worldly comforts, contentments, and enjoyments. A man never comes to experience so much of the emptiness, the nothingness, the uselessness, the vanity, the mutability, the impotency, the insufficiency, and the uncertainty of all worldly comforts, and enjoyments, as when he comes to fall under the Rod. The constant cry of the Rod is, Be dead to the profits, pleasures, honours, and applauses of the world, be dead to relations, be dead to friends, be dead to every thing below a living Jesus. But,
The eighth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod, (or ⟨image 43⟩