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A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse…
A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favourable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favorable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, (If God be with us, who can be against us?) §7I answer, None, so as to hinder our private Trade to Heaven: All the world can never hinder a sincere Christian from driving a secret Trade with Heaven, as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margin together. 1A Christian •an as well hear without ears, and live without food, and fight without hands, and walk without feet, as he is able to live without secret Prayer. Secret Prayer is the life of our lives, the soul, the sweet, the heaven of all our enjoyments; of all the duties of Religion: Secret Prayer is the most soul-sweetening, soul-strengthening, soul-nourishing, soul-fattening, soul-refreshing, soul-satisfying, and soul-encouraging duty; in all the Ages of the world, the Saints have kept the Trade, in spite of all opposers and persecutors, in prisons, in dungeons, in dens, in bonds, in banishments, on racks, and in the very flames, the Saints have still kept up this secret Trade; as you may see at large in my Treatise on closet Prayer, called The privy Key of Heaven, to which I refer you. But
Seventhly, (If God be with us, who can be against us?) §7I answer, None, so as to hinder our private Trade to Heaven: All the world can never hinder a sincere Christian from driving a secret Trade with Heaven, as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margin together. 1A Christian •an as well hear without ears, and live without food, and fight without hands, and walk without feet, as he is able to live without secret Prayer. Secret Prayer is the life of our lives, the soul, the sweet, the heaven of all our enjoyments; of all the duties of Religion: Secret Prayer is the most soul-sweetning, soulstrengthning, soul-nourishing, soul-fatning, soul-refreshing, soul-satisfying, and soul-encouraging duty; in all the Ages of the world, the Saints have kept the Trade, in spite of all opposers and persecutors, in prisons, in dungeons, in dens, in bonds, in banishments, on racks, and in the very flames, the Saints have still kept up this secret Trade; as you may see at large in my Treatise on closet Prayer, called The privy Key of Heaven, to which I refer you. But