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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

that all diseases and sicknesses are limited by God in respect of the degrees to which they shall arise That God that sets bounds to the raging Sea and that saith unto it Thus far shalt thou go and no further that God sets bounds to all raging diseases and sicknesses and saith unto them thus far you shall go and no further He sets bounds to the Feaver he saith to it go and scorch and burn up such a body so much and no more and to the Dropsie go and drown such a body so much and no more and to the raging Pestilence go and weaken such a body so much and no more and to the Stone go and torment such a body so much and no more 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 by the raging Pestilence is to Gal. 5. 24. 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. Eccl. 1. 2. Prov. 23. 5. Jer. 45. 4 5 get 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 uselesness 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 ninth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod or by the raging Pestilence is to get assurance of greater and better things than any this world doth afford That saying Heb. 10. 33 34. is as true as it is old viz. That the assurance of an eternal life is the life of this temporal life But having spoke so much of this particular in my Treatise on Assurance which is now in your hands I shall satisfie my self with this hint at present But The tenth Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod or by the raging Pestilence is not to despise the Rod Heb. 12. 5. My Son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord. The Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is translated despise signifies the littling of a thing O do not little the Rod do not lessen it do not slight it do not make a tush at it do not set light by it do not say I will not regard it he that doth shews himself rather to be a Roman than a Christian Now because there is such a desperate aptness proness in many to make light of the Rod it will be your wisdom seriously to lay to heart these four particulars First That it is an immediate hand of God and therefore not to be despised 'T is a Am. 3. 6. Deut. 28. 58 59 60 61. sad and sinful thing to despise the mediate hand of God but 't is more sad and sinful to despise the immediate hand of God But Secondly 'T is a mighty hand of God 1 Pet. 5. 6. Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time Certainly Am. 4. 10. 11. Ez. 38. 22 23. that heart must be mightily wicked that dares despise the mighty hand of God But Thirdly 'T is an angry hand of God and therefore do not despise it Psal 90. 7. For we are consumed by thy anger and by thy wrath are we troubled Vers 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy Num. 16. 46. Ez. 33. 27 28. 29 Deut 29. 22. 23 24. 25 wrath Shall Devils tremble under his angry hand Yea shall they roar as the Sea under his 〈◊〉 wrathful hand as that Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports in that James 2. 19. And will you presume to despise his angry hand the Lord forbid but Fourthly and lastly Consider that it is a holy hand it is a just and righteous hand it is a faithful hand of God and therefore do not despise it Jer. 29. 17 18 19. Lev. 26. 25. Jer 14. 12 13 14. 15. 16 Psal 119. 75. I know O Lord that thy Judgmentt are right or righteousness and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Vers 137. Righteous art thou O Lord and upright are thy Judgments Certainly none but unholy persons will be so impudent as to despise Gods holy hand Well The Eleventh Lesson that you are to learn by the Rod or by the raging Pestilence is not to be discouraged under the Rod Heb. ●2 Nor Jer. 27. 13. 2 Sam. 24. 10 17. faint when thou art rebuked of him First It is a Rod in a fathers hand and therefore do not faint under it Secondly God will do much good by the Rod and therefore do not faint under the Rod. Thirdly You could not have been without the Rod and therefore do not faint 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 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 gratifie Satan reproach religion render your selves unserviceable and make work for future Repentance and therefore do not faint under the Rod. But The Twelfth Lesson that you 2 Chron. 32. 25 26. Lev. 26. 40 41 42. Mic. 7. 9. Lam. 3. 30. Luke 21. 10. are to learn under the Rod or by the raging Pestilence is humbly to kiss the Rod and patiently quietly to lye under the Rod till the Lord shall either give you a gracious or a glorious deliverance from it What is the Rod and what is the raging Pestilence to the horrors of Conscience to the flames of hell or to an everlasting separation