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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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so that if he might be free from the injunctions and directions of the Word (with the servant ⟨p. 149⟩in the Law) he would not value such a liberty;1 he would not swear, nor lye, nor be drunk, nor whore, nor dissemble, nor cheat, nor run into all excess of riot if he might, because in his soul he has a principle of grace, and an inward contrariety and antipathy against it;2 he would not cease to hear, to read, to pray, to meditate if he might, because his soul takes a delight & sweet complacency in these things; there is a principle within him agreeable to the precept without him, which makes all religious performances to be easy and pleasurable to him. Look, as the eye delights in seeing, and the ear in hearing, so a gracious heart (except when 'tis under a cloud of desertion, or in the School of temptation, or under some grievous tormenting afflictions, or sadly worsted by some prevalent corruption) delights in obeying: Actions of nature, you know, are actions of delight; and so are all those actions that spring from a new nature, a divine nature, &c.
so that if he might be free from the injunctions and directions of the Word (with the servant ⟨p. 149⟩in the Law) he would not value such a liberty;1 he would not swear, nor lye, nor be drunk, nor whore, nor dissemble, nor cheat, nor run into all excess of riot if he might, because in his soul he has a principle of grace, and an inward contrariety and antipathy against it;2 he would not cease to hear, to read, to pray, to meditate if he might, because his soul takes a delight & sweet complacency in these things; there is a principle within him agreeable to the precept without him, which makes all religious performances to be easie and pleasurable to him. Look, as the eye delights in seeing, and the ear in hearing, so a gracious heart (except when 'tis under a cloud of dissertion, or in the School of temptation, or under some grievous tormenting afflictions, or sadly worsted by some prevalent corruption) delights in obeying: Actions of nature, you know, are actions of delight; and so are all those actions that spring from a new nature, a divine nature, &c.