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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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Chapter 1 › Maxim 17: The seventeenth Maxim or Consideration.
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The seventeenth Maxim or Consideration.
Seventeenthly, When ever you cast your eye upon your §17gracious evidences, it highly concerns you seriously to remember that you have to deal with God in a Covenant of Grace, and not in a Covenant of Works. Every breach of peace with God, is not a breach of Covenant with God. Though the Wife hath many weaknesses and infirmities hanging upon her, and though she may often grieve, provoke and displease her Husband, yet as long as she remains faithful, and truly loving, and in the main obedient to him, though he may alter his carriage towards her,1 yet he will not withdraw his love from her, or deny his relation to her. No more will God towards his weak miscarrying ones, as you may evidently see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margin together. Doubtless there are many dear Christians whose troubles of Conscience about their spiritual and eternal estates, arises from their looking upon God, and dealing with God in a Covenant of Works. Are there not many precious Christians, who when they fall before temptations, and are worsted by their corruptions, that are ready to question all, and throw up all as lost, and peremptorily to conclude against their own Souls, that all is naught, very naught, stark naught, and that they are Hypocrites, and that God will never own such as they are, nor never accept of such as they are, nor never delight in such as they are, nor never have any thing to do with such as they are, and all this because they do not a right understand the Covenant of Grace, and think that they have to deal with God in a Covenant of Works. Though many Christians do freely and readily acknowledge that there is a Covenant of Grace, yet upon the least stirring of any corruption, or the least conquest that is made upon them by the violence of any temptation, they are so full of fears, faintings, reasonings, diffidences, and despondencies, &c. And they carry it so weakly and unworthily towards the Lord, as if there were no Covenant