, ~oret~~aftrj: SECT. 11. The wor~s opened. F. Or a more diRinft openingofthe words a~corclin! . to the·parts before-mentioned, confider: , 1. What is meant by a Clofet, here. Some un-der ftand and interpret it, not literally but myf.l:ically, . ma– king an Allegory of it, as though it .did·import [intqrio.: rem ~ordis recejfum] die.inner receffes or motions of the heart, but though that be a truth and duty, That we· mull: pray in th:e clof~t of thehear~; yet, I humbly co~ceive, that is not the prope,r meaningof this place : fo'r I we need not interpr~t this plain word in fucha bqrrow~ ed fenfe; fince multit'udes of $cripture~ are foex'p,rets, for wodhippingGod. with theheart. ~efides,that is not luitable to the icope of the pl~ce, whfch oppoieth f~lt- : 1 .· . . • . . . , retirement to the Pharifaical 'mod~ ~; :~,:b mCnt. Sac. ofdevotion : The word t~e,n is tobe • v • . literally taken, a!'~ xfu?r1i in .gene~ ral. imports ~ny fccret place where a thing is laid up :' . part it ularly, it fignifies a Safe place, Mac. 24· 2. 6. or Cupboard to lay viel:uals in · o'r Luk. 12· 3· 1 k d Ch'a h . . r. ' • a oc e eu. , w eretna treature ts .· ufually referved : or it's taken (as indeed- her~ and oft ,., ,.....elfe where) for aclofe\or fecr~~ chamber, a wtthdraw.. . . ing-room~ retiring-place, .where a, J2Ettnvu tecum . 0 ' - aperfon is not feen nor heard,nor yet cultumnot4t. Par• . • d·Jl, b d/. h. d . . · L · . · ·IS tnur e tn ts eyetton,s ~Y any noifeor commotion : a fecret conclave' or lockedPar· Ior, where no company'is t9 come .. ' 2. Shut th'.tlo6r : this WOfd imports yet a.fu degreeoffecrecy:q!d. that thou tnaifi: mak~ thy_ f~Jfto lefs ot>ferved, iliut up thy felf in a room ; let none ,......-. 01 a.t thee to difturb thee: in thy converfings ~ith.'·9od, · t~e door and make i~ faft ~ Jea ~et non~ o1~r-·... LL..Q...
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