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A cabinet of choice jewels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain…A cabinet of choice jevvels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain…
A cabinet of choice jewels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for eternity, and how 'tis like to go with them in another world ... / by Thomas Brooks ...A cabinet of choice jevvels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for eternity, and how 'tis like to go with them in another world ... / by Thomas Brooks ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock ..., 1669
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The fourth Maxim or Consideration.
Fourthly, consider, Where there is any one grace in §4truth, there is every grace in truth, though every grace cannot be seen. Look, as a man may certainly know a wicked ⟨p. 8⟩man by his living under the reign and dominion of any one sin,1 though he does not live under the power of other sins, because there is not any one sin mortified in that man, that hath any one sin reigning in him, and that does not set himself in good earnest against it as his greatest enemy. So when a Christian can but find any one grace in him, as love to the Saints, for grace sake, for godliness sake, he may safely conclude, that there is in him all other graces; where there is but one link of this golden chain, there are all the links of this golden chain, Joh. 13.35. By this shall all men know ye are my Disciples, if ye love one another. He doth not say, if ye work miracles, if ye raise the dead, if ye give eyes to the blind, or ears to the deaf, or tongues to the dumb, or feet to the lame, but if ye love one another. There have been many, yea, very many precious Christians, who have lived and died with a great deal of comfort and peace from the application of that Text to their own souls, 1 John 3.14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. Sincere love to the brethren, is a most evident sign of a Christians being already passed or translated from death to life; observe, the Apostle doth not say, we think we have passed from death to life, but we know we have passed from death to life; nor he does not say, we conjecture we have passed from death to life, but we know we have passed from death to life; nor he does not say, we hope we are passed from death to life, but we are assured that we are passed from death to life, that is, from a state of nature into a state of grace, because we love the brethren; for ever remember this, when all other evidences have failed, many gracious Christians, and all other Texts of Scripture have afforded them no comfort here, they have anchored here, they have found rest for their distressed souls, and upon this one single plank, this one evidence they have swam safely and comfortably unto the haven of eternal happiness. Every real Christian hath in some measure, every sanctifying grace in him;