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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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That Pilot dies nobly (saith Seneca) who perisheth in the storm with the Helm in his hand.
Aristides was a man of a public spirit; after the overthrow of the Persians, when there was a Mass of treasure, gold, silver, and rich apparel, he would not touch it, nor take so much as one farthing of it to himself, he was in high esteem among the people.
Aristides was a man of a publick spirit; after the overthrow of the Persians, when there was a Mass of treasure, gold, silver, and rich apparel, he would not touch it, nor take so much as one farthing of it to himself, he was in high esteem among the people.
Tully in his Book of Scipio's dream, brings in a dead Father (now in heaven as he supposed) encouraging his son to do service for his Country (wherein himself had given him a most noble and notable example) upon a very high consideration, viz. There is a most sure and certain place in heaven for every man that shall procure the weal of his Country, either by freeing it from peril, or increasing the happiness of it any way. To hear a Gentile tell of heaven, as of a thing certain; to hear him tell of certain places provided there for those that should do virtuously, to have the service of ones Country pressed on his soul with so celestial an argument, what matter of wonder and admiration is it!
Tully in his Book of Scipio's dream, brings in a dead Father (now in heaven as he supposed) encouraging his son to do service for his Countrey (wherein himself had given him a most noble and notable example) upon a very high consideration, viz. There is a most sure and certain place in heaven for every man that shall procure the weal of his Countrey, either by freeing it from peril, or increasing the happiness of it any way. To hear a Gentile tell of heaven, as of a thing certain; to hear him tell of certain places provided there for those that should do vertuously, to have the service of ones Countrey pressed on his soul with so celestial an argument, what matter of wonder and admiration is it!