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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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Dedication: To the Right Worshipful, Sir John Frederick Knight, and the Lady Mary Frederick his pio…
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Fourthly, Some there are who in these days are given up to Enthusiastical Fancies, strange Raptures, Revelations, §4and to the sad delusions of their own hearts, crying down with all their might all discoveries of Believers spiritual estates by Scripture Characters, 1Marks and Signs of Sanctification, as carnal, and low, and all this under fair pretences of exalting Christ, and maintaining the honour of his Righteousness and Free grace, and of denying our selves, and our own righteousness. ⟨image 5⟩Though sanctification be a branch of the Covenant of grace as well as Justification,2 yet there are a sort of men in the world, that would not have Christians to rejoice in their sanctification, under a pretence of reflecting dishonour upon their free justification by Christ. There are many who place all their Religion in opinions, in brain-sick notions, in airy speculations, in quaint disputations, in immediate Revelations, and in their warm zeal, for this or that form of worship. Now, that these may be recovered, and healed, and prevented from doing further mischief in the world, I have at this time put to a helping hand. But,
Fourthly, Some there are who in these dayes are given up to Enthusiastical Fancies, strange Raptures, Revelations, §4and to the sad delusions of their own hearts, crying down with all their might all discoveries of Believers spiritual estates by Scripture Characters, 1Marks and Signs of Sanctification, as carnal, and low, and all this under fair pretences of exalting Christ, and maintaining the honour of his Righteousness and Freegrace, and of denying our selves, and our own righteousness. ⟨image 5⟩Though sanctification be a branch of the Covenant of grace as well as Justification,2