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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29703	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.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1665 (1665)	Wing B4961; ESTC R24146	207,234	605

marvelous close and secret and subtile to conceal their abominable filthiness therefore the Harlot is said to be Rab. Sol. in hunc vers subtile of heart Prov. 7. 10. The Hebrew by Rabbi Solomon is translated munito corde and having her heart fenced for saith he as a City is environed with fortifications so her heart is fertified round about with subtilty or else it may be rendred occlusa corde fast shut up in the heart even as close as a besiedged City that is most secret in the subtilty of her heart how open soever she be in the boldness of her outward carriage So the Prophet Agur reckoneth the way of a Man with a Maid and the way of an adulterous Woman among those things which neither himself nor any other man was possibly able to discover and find out and compares it to the way of three things which no wit nor industry of man is able to descry but yet God seeth all and will bring them Prov. 30. 19 20. to the Bar for all But Secondly Consider That secret In my Treatise called Apples of Gold c. I have proved by many arguments that the sins of the Saints shall not be brought into the judgment of Discussion and discovery in the great day pag. 155 to pag. 172. and therefore understand this second particular of such who live and die in their secret sins without Repentance and faith in the blood of Christ sins shall be revealed The most hidden works of darkness shall be openly manifested for though the actings of sin be in the dark yet the judgings of sin shall be in the light Luke 8. 17. For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest neither any thing hid that shall not be known and come abroad The slanders of the Jews concerning the magical arts of Christ and his Apostles the horrible lyes of the Pagans concerning the incestuous copulations of the Christians and their drinking mans-blood were in time discovered what they were Eccl. 12. 14. God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil Mark he doth not say some work but every work and not only works but secrets and not only secrets but every secret and not only secret good things but evil to whether good works or ill works whether secret or open all must be brought to judgement The Books of Gods Omniscience and mans Conscience shall then be opened and then secret sins shall be as legible in thy forehead as if they were written with the most glistering Sun-beams upon a wall of Chrystal All mens secret sins are printed in Heaven and God will at last read them aloud in the ears of all the world 1 Cor. 4. 5. Judg nothing before the time until the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart Look as there are a world of flies and motes in the Aire which we never see till the Sun shines so there are many thousand thousands of proud thoughts and unclean thoughts and worldly thoughts and malicious thoughts envious thoughts and bloudy thoughts c. which the world sees not knows not but in the great day when the counsels of all hearts shall be manifest then all shall out then all shall appear both to the upper and the lower world In the great day all Masks Vizards and Hoods shall be pulled off and then all shall out all that ever thou hast done in the secret Chamber in the dark corner shall be made known to men and Angels yea to the whole Court of Heaven and to all the world beside Rom. 2. 16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ In this great day God will judge not only our words but our works not only our open works but also our secret works and wayes When Jehoiakim 2 Chron. 36 8. was dead there was found the characters superstitious marks and prints of his sorcery upon his body which shews how deeply Idolatry was rooted in his heart seeing he bare the marks in his flesh during his life he being a King bore it out bravely and kept all close but when he was dead then all came out then the marks of his abominable Idolatry appeared upon his body Though sinners though the greatest of sinners may hide and keep close their horrid abominations for a time yet there will come a time when all shall out when all their secret marks and secret abominations shall be obvious to all the world But sinners may be ready to Object and say Let us but alone in our secret sins till that day and then we shall do well enough And therefore in the Third place Consider that God many times doth even in this life Isa 41. 21 22 23. discover and make known to the world mens secret sins God loves to act suitable to his own names Now to be a revealer of secrets is one of his Names Dan. 2. 47. and accordingly even in this world he often brings to light the most hidden things of darkness Of all the glorious Attributes of God there is none that suffers so deeply by secret sins as the Attribute of his Omniscience and therefore in this world God often stands up to vindicate the Honour of that Attribute by unmasking of sinners and by bringing to the light all those secret paths and wayes of wickedness wherein they have long walked undiscovered 'T was for the honour of this blessed Attribute of God that the secret plotted Acts 5. 1 12. sin of Ananias and Saphira was so openly discovered And great fear came upon all the Church and upon as many as heard these things Josephs Brethren for a long time hide their malice their craft their Gen. 42. 21 22. Chap. 50. 15 22. cruelty their envy their tretchery in selling their Brother into Egypt but at last by amazing and amusing providences all was brought to light Conscience that for a time may seem to be asleep yet will in time awake and make the sinner know that he is as faithful in recording as he is fearful in accusing and this Josephs Brethren found by sad experience So Gehazi 2 Kings 5. 20. ult he sins secretly he lyes fearfully and after all he defends it stoutly but at last all comes out and instead of being cloathed richly he and his posterity was cloathed with a Leprosie for ever and instead of two changes of Garments God hangs him up in Chains as a Monument of his wrath to all Generations So Achan secretly and sacriledgiously steales a goodly Babylonish Garment and two hundred Shekels of Silver and a Wedge of Gold of Fifty Shekels Weight and hides them in the earth in the midst of his Tent and by reason of this Israel flyes before their enemies but at last Achan is taken and all comes out and his Golden Wedge proved a Wedge