The Privy Key of Heaven
Brooks' exposition on afflictions as God's corrective rod, establishing seven parallels between divine chastisement and fatherly discipline. He demonstrates that God's rod, though painful, always proceeds from paternal love and aims at the believer's humiliation, reformation, and ultimate sanctification.
9 Chapters
Table of Contents
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00.1. The Secret Key to Heaven
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02. In what respects are afflictions like a rod?
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03. God's purpose and end of taking up the rod
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04. Twenty special lessons which you are to learn by the rod
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05. Twenty arguments to persuade you to closet prayer
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06. To those who are strangers to closet prayer
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07. Six objections stated and answered
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08. Eleven advices and counsels
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09. Means, Rules, and Directions