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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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Fourthly, No carnal disputes or reasonings with flesh and blood shall dissuade him from his obedience, Heb. 11.7. Noah might have raised many objections against that strange attempt of building an Ark, a work of an hundred and twenty years continuance; but Noah waves all disputes, and falls upon building of the Ark, according to the command of God. So Paul, as soon as he was converted, he was commanded by God to preach to the Gentiles; he might have made abundance of objections against that service, but instead of objecting, he falls close to his Master's work, and never consults with flesh and blood, Gal. 1.15, 16, 17.
Fourthly, No carnal disputes or reasonings with flesh and bloud shall disswade him from his obedience, Heb. 11.7. Noah might have raised many objections against that strange attempt of building an Ark, a work of an hundred and twenty years continuance; but Noah waves all disputes, and falls upon building of the Ark, according to the command of God. So Paul, as soon as he was converted, he was commanded by God to preach to the Gentiles; he might have made abundance of objections against that service, but instead of objecting, he falls closs to his Master's work, and never consults with flesh and bloud, Gal. 1.15, 16, 17.
Fifthly, No flood of natural affection shall hinder them in the way of their obedience. When God commanded Abraham to offer up Isaac as a Burnt-Offering, he goes about it readily, and never acquaints Sarah with it, lest she should have hindered him in his obedience, and he goes three days journey to effect it, Gen. 22. compared with