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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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O labour as for life, daily to give a firm and fixed assent to the truth of those blessed Promises last cited, and hold it ⟨p. 50⟩as an indisputable and inviolable Principle, That whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ, or whosoever hath received Christ as his Lord and Saviour, shall be certainly saved.1 This is the person that hath the Word, the Promise, the Covenant, the Oath of that God that cannot possibly lye, or dye for the pardon of his sin, and for the Salvation of his Soul. Now O my Soul, what security couldest thou ask more of a deceitful man, than that which the great Jehovah, •he faithful God of his own accord hath given to thee, viz. his word, and his. Oath. Now not to believe God upon his Promise and Oath, is to make him a Liar, yea the worst of Liars; yea, 'tis to do worse than the Devils ••r they believe and tremble. Though the word of the Lord deserves the greatest credit that any mortals can give unto it, (he being truth it self that hath said it) though it had no Oaths, nor no Asseverations to be its surety, yet God in his infinite condescending love to poor sinners, that he may sink the truth of what he saith deeper into the hearts and minds of his people, and leave the fairer and fuller print in our assents to the same, he sets on the word of Promise with the weight of Asseverations and Oaths; yea, and to all these he hath annexed his Broad Seal, the Lords Supper, and the Privy Seal of his Spirit: O unreasonable unbelief! shall not the Oath of God silence all Disputes? A man would never desire of any honest man, so much as God hath condescended to, for the confirmation of our Faith, witness his Promises, his Covenant, his Oath, and his Seals; and therefore let us give glory to him by believing, and quietly rest upon his faithfulness.
O labour as for life, daily to give a firm and fixed assent to the truth of those blessed Promises last cited, and hold it ⟨p. 50⟩as an indisputable and inviolable Principle, That whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ, or whosoever hath received Christ as his Lord and Saviour, shall be certainly saved.