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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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The fourteenth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod (or by the raging Pestilence) is, personal reformation. When the Rod smarts, & the Pestilence rageth, God expects that every man should smite upon his thigh, and turn from the evil of his doings, 2 Chron. 7. 13, 14. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the Land, or if I send Pestilence among my people: If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, & seek my face, & turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, & will forgive their sin, & will heal their Land; that is, I will remove the judgments that are upon the Land, & I will confer upon my reforming people all those favours & blessings that they stand ⟨image 47⟩in need of. Consult these Scriptures, Ezr. 10. 14, 19. 2 Chron. 30. 8, 9. And chap. 29. 8, 10, 15, 16. But,
The fourteenth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod (or by the raging Pestilence) is, personal reformation. When the Rod smarts, & the Pestilence rageth, God expects that every man should smite upon his thigh, and turn from the evil of his doings, 2 Chron. 7. 13, 14. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the Land, or if I send Pestilence among my people: If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, & seek my face, & turn from their wicked wayes; then will I hear from heaven, & will forgive their sin, & will heal their Land; that is, I will remove the judgments that are upon the Land, & I will confer upon my reforming people all those favours & blessings that they stand ⟨image 47⟩in need of. Consult these Scriptures, Ezr. 10. 14, 19. 2 Chron. 30. 8, 9