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The Bible and the Closet: or How We May Read the Scriptures with the Most Spiritual Profit; and Secret Prayer Successfully Managed is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible and the Closet contains two works by Puritan Nonconformist ministers of England who were ejected in 1662. It was put together by John Overton Choules in 1842 for the education of American Puritans on their own history. The first is Thomas Watson’s How We May Read the Scriptures with the Most Spiritual Profit, and the second is Samuel Lee’s Secret Prayer Successfully Managed. This volume...

hath God punished proud men! Nebuchadnezzar was turned to eat grass; Herod eat up with vermin. How hath God plagued idolaters! Numbers 25:3, 4, 9; 1 Kings 14:9, 10. What a swift witness hath he been against liars! Acts 5:5, 10. These examples are set up as sea-marks to avoid. 1 Cor. 10:11; Jude 7. 2. Observe the examples of God’s mercy to saints. Jeremiah was preserved in the dungeon; the three children in the furnace; Daniel in the lion’s den. These examples are props to faith, spurs to holiness.
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