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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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Fourthly, The Rod that is now upon, is not according to the greatness of Gods anger, nor according to to the greatness of his power, nor according to the strictness of his Justice, ⟨image 45⟩nor according to the demerits of your sins, nor according to the malicious desires of Satan, nor according to the designs, plots, and contrivances, of wicked and unreasonable men, nor according to the extensiveness of your fears, for you have feared worse things than you feel, nor according to that Rod that hath been upon the Primitive Saints, nor according to that Rod, that many thousands of the precious sons and daughters of Zion are under in other parts of the world, and therefore do not faint under the Rod, do not be discouraged under the Rod.
Fourthly, The Rod that is now upon, is not according to the greatness of Gods anger, nor according to to the greatness of his power, nor according to the strictness of his Justice, ⟨image 45⟩nor according to the demerits of your sins, nor according to the malitious desires of Satan, nor according to the designes, plots, and contrivances, of wicked and unreasonable men, nor according to the extensiveness of your fears, for you have feared worse things than you feel, nor according to that Rod that hath been upon the Primitive Saints, nor according to that Rod, that many thousands of the precious sons and daughters of Zion are under in other parts of the world, and therefore do not faint under the Rod, do not be discouraged under the Rod.
Fifthly, by fainting under the Rod, you will gratify Satan, reproach religion, render your selves unserviceable, and make work for future Repentance; and therefore do not faint under the Rod. But,
Fifthly, by fainting under the Rod, you will gratifie Satan, reproach religion, render your selves unserviceable, and make work for future Repentance; and therefore do not faint under the Rod. But,