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Name: A cabinet of choice jewels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain…
Author: Thomas Brooks

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Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock ..., 1669

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Chapter 1 › Maxim 8: The eighth Maxim or Consideration.

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Thirdly, When a man is usually peremptory in his sinnings, in the face of all reprehensions and arguments that tend to dissuade him from sin,¹ then sin is in dominion; when the constant bent of the heart is inflamed towards sin, and when the desires of the soul are insatiably carried after sin, and when the resolutions of the soul are strongly and habitually set upon sin,² then sin is in the Throne, and then it reigns as a King; when God hedges up the sinners way with thorns, yet the sinner will break through all to his sin; when life and death, heaven and hell, glory and misery are set before the sinner,³ yet the sinner will be peremptory in his sinnings, though he lose his life, his soul, and all the glory of another world, then sin reigns. But,

Thirdly, When a man is usually peremptory in his sinnings, in the face of all reprehensions and arguments that tend to disswade him from sin,¹ then sin is in dominion; when the constant bent of the heart is inflamed towards sin, and when the desires of the soul are insatiably carried after sin, and when the resolutions of the soul are strongly and habitually set upon sin,² then sin is in the Throne, and then it reigns as a King; when God hedges up the sinners way with thorns, yet the sinner will break through all to his sin; when life and death, heaven and hell, glory and misery are set before the sinner,³ yet the sinner will be peremptory in his sinnings, though he lose his life, his soul, and all the glory of another world, then sin reigns. But,

1Prov. 29.1. Jer. 5.3, 4

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