A29686:192
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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Eighthly and lastly, They very much discourage, dishearten, §8and d•sanimate many poor weak Christians, who observing of them (of whom they have had very high and honourable thoughts, for the Grace of God that they have judged to be in them) to be still a questioning of their integrity, and still a doub•ing of the graciousness and goodness of their conditions, do begin to question their own Estates and conditions, yea, and many times peremptorily to conclude, that surely they have no grace, they have no interest in Christ, and that all this while they have but put a cheat upon their own souls. Now O that all poor, weak, dark, doubting Christians would never leave praying over these eight things and pondering upon these eight things, till they are perfectly cured of that spiritual malady that they have been long labouring under, and which has been very prejudicial to the peace and comfort of their own souls.
E•ghthly and lastly, They very much discourage, dishearten, §8and d•sanimate many poor weak Christians, who observing of them (of whom they have had very high and honourable thoughts, for the Grace of God that they have judged to be in them) to be still a questioning of their integrity, and still a doub•ing of the graciousness and goodness of their conditions, do begin to question their own Estates and conditions, yea, and many times peremptorily to conclude, that surely they have no grace, they have no inter•st in Christ, and that all this while they have but put a cheat upon their own souls. Now O that all poor, weak, dark, doubting Christians would never leave praying over these eight things and pondering upon these eight things, till they are perfectly cured of that spiritual malady that they have been long labouring under, and which has been very prejudicial to the peace and comfort of their own souls.