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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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witness Antiochus, Saul, Haman, Herod, Dives, &c. but saving grace does; the graces of the Spirit are that chain of pearl that adorns Christ's Bride. 2. Grace puts an excellency upon all a mans duties; By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; faith put an excellency upon Abel's sacrifice. 3. Grace puts an excellency upon all a mans natural and acquired excellencies; it puts an excellency upon beauty, honour, riches, name, arts, parts, gifts. Now, how excellent and glorious must that be, that puts an excellency upon all our excellencies? 4. Grace makes a man conformable to God and Christ. 5.1 Grace fits a man for communion and fellowship with Father, Son and Spirit. 6. Grace fits a man for the choicest services. 7. Grace turns all things into a blessing. 8. Grace fills the soul with all spiritual excellencies. 9. Grace preserves a Christian from the worst of evils, viz. sin. 10. Grace sweetens death, it makes the King of terrors to be the King of desires. 11. Grace renders a man acceptable to God, and that's the height of a Christians ambition in this world, 2 Cor. 5.9. Wherefore we labour ([Greek or Hebrew], we are ambitious) that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. The Apostles made it their ambition to get acceptance in heaven: riches, and honours and gifts, and arts, and parts, &c. may commend us to men; but 'tis only grace that commends us to God, and that renders us lovely in his eyes. 12. Grace will eternalize your names, grace will perfume and embalm your names, Heb. 11.2. By faith the Elders obtained a good report. Ver. 39. And these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise. Nothing raises a mans name and fame in the wo•ld like grace. A man may obtain a great report without grace, nothing below grace will perpetuate a mans name.2 The seven Deacons that the Church chose were gracious ⟨p. 180⟩men,3