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Closet Prayer a Christian Duty

by Oliver Heywood

A compelling treatise on the duty and practice of secret prayer, grounded in Matthew 6:6. Heywood exposes the danger of mere outward religion and calls believers to cultivate genuine communion with God in the closet. With biblical examples, practical directions on preparation, posture, and perseverance, and answers to common objections, this work is both a rebuke to spiritual negligence and an earnest exhortation to the hidden life of devotion that sustains all true godliness.
Chapters
9
Word count
41,958
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 The Epistle to the Reader: Especially to the Strict and Serious Professor of Christianity 2,343 words
  2. 02 Chapter 1 5,649 words
  3. 03 Chapter 2: The Reasons to Prove that Closet-Prayer Is a Christian Duty 6,831 words
  4. 04 Chapter 3: The First Use, of Information 3,360 words
  5. 05 Chapter 4: The Second Use, namely, of Reprehension 4,572 words
  6. 06 Chapter 5: The Third Use Is of Instruction 4,806 words
  7. 07 Chapter 6: The Circumstances of Secret Prayer, Opened 3,200 words
  8. 08 Chapter 7: Concerning the Matter or Words of Prayer 3,026 words
  9. 09 Chapter 8: An Use of Exhortation, Urged 8,038 words
Front matter (1 section)

Title Page

CLOSET-PRAYER A Christian Duty: OR, A TREATISE UPON Matthew 6:6.

Tending to prove that the worship of God in secret, is the indispensable duty of all Christians; both by various examples and arguments.

TOGETHER, With a severe rebuke of Christians for their neglect of, or negligence in, the duty of Closet-Prayer: And many directions for the managing of it, exhortations to it, objections answered, cases of conscience cleared.

By O. HETWOOD, Minister of the Gospel.

(Jeremiah 13:17) But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride, and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

[reconstructed: London], Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and [reconstructed: Three] Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, 1671.

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