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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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Dedication: To the Right Worshipful, Sir John Frederick Knight, and the Lady Mary Frederick his pio…
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Honoured and Beloved in our Lord Jesus,
Though I crowd your Names together, yet I owe more than an Epistle to each of your Names; but the Lo•d having made you near and dear one to another, more ways than one, I take the boldness to present this Treatise to you jointly. Here is nothing in this Book that relates to the Government of Church or State: The design of this Treatise is to show what men are worth for Eternity, and how it is like to ⟨image 3⟩go with them in another World. 1There are none of the sons of men, but bear about with them precious and immortal souls, that are more worth than ten thousand thousand worlds; if the soul be safe all is safe, if that be well all is well, if that be lost all is lost. The first great work that men are to attend in this World, is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls for ever. And these are the main things that are aimed at in this Discourse. The soul is the better and more noble part of man; upon the soul the Image of God is most fairly stamped; the soul is first converted, and the soul shall be first and most glorified; the soul is that spiritual and immortal substance that is capable of union with God, and of communion with God, and of an eternal fruition of God. Plato though a Heathen, could say, That he thought the soul to be made all of eternity, and that the putting the soul into the body, was a sign of great wrath from God.
THough I croud your Names together, yet I owe more than an Epistle to each of your Names; but the Lo•d having made you near and dear one to another, more wayes than one, I take the boldness to present this Treatise to you jointly. Here is nothing in this Book that relates to the Government of Church or State: The design of this Treatise is to shew what men are worth for Eternity, and how it is like to ⟨image 3⟩