VI. A deep Sense of God in Prayer, is desirable and ravishing.
Could I understand my near approach to God in Prayer, it
The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...
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- The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...
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- Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 1643-1707.
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- 1684.
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"The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56406.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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would exalt my Soul above mea∣sure. And why am I not ravish∣ed with the Thoughts of being in the Presence of God, and ha∣ing the Ear, yea, the Heart of the King of Heaven? It is nothing but want of Faith, and the strange Power of Sense that weakens my Spiritual Apprehensions, and keeps me from an unspeakable Delight in my Addresses to God; What an high Priviledg is this to speak to the Great JEHOVAH, as a Child to a Father, or a Friend to a Friend? But how slow of Heart am I to conceive the Glo∣ry and Happiness thereof? Could I but manage this great Duty as I ought, it would be an Heaven upon Earth; It would bring God down to me, or carry me up to Him, Why should I not be car∣ried above the World, when I
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am so near to God? Why should I not be changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory? Why am I not even transported beyond my self?