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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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of his own unrighteousness; ⟨p. 34⟩he that hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of sanctification, as earnestly as hungry men do for meat, or as thirsty men do for drink, or as the innocent person that is falsely charged or accused, longs to be cleared and righted, or as Rachel did for children, or as David did after the water of the Well of Bethlehem, or as the hunted Hart doth after the water brooks; he that hungers and thirsts not after some righteousness only, but he that hungers and thirsts after all righteousness, he that hungers and thirsts not only after some grace, but all grace; not only after some holiness, but all holiness; he that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, out of love to righteousness, he that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, from a sight and sense of the loveliness and excellency that there is in righteousness;1 he that hungers and thirsts after the highest degrees and measures of righteousness and holiness,2 he that primarily, chiefly, hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness, he that industriously hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness, he that ordinarily, habitually, constantly, hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness, Psal. 119.20. My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. By judgments we are to understand the statutes and commandments of God) Mark that word, at all times. Bad men have their good moods, as good men have their bad moods: A bad man may under gripes of conscience, a smarting rod, the approaches of death, or the fears of hell, or when he is Sermon-sick, cry out to the Lord for grace, for righteousness, for holiness; but he is the only blessed man that hungers and thirsts after righteousness at all times, and that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, according to the other forementioned short hints; he is certainly a blessed man, heaven is for that man, and that man is for heaven, that hungers and thirsts in a right manner after the righteousness of justification, and after the righteousness of sanctification.) But I do truly hunger and thirst after righteousness, therefore I am blessed, and shall be filled, &c.