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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 did the Pharisees. Did Abraham pay tithes? so did the Pharisees, they tithed their very Mint and Rue, but their ends being wrong, their time was lost, and their pains was lost, and their duties was lost, and their alms was lost, and their souls was lost, and that for ever. God writes a nothing upon all those services wherein mens ends are not right, Jer. 32.23. But,
so did the Pharisees. Did Abraham pay tythes? so did the Pharisees, they tythed their very Mint and Rue, but their ends being wrong, their time was lost, and their pains was lost, and their duties was lost, and their alms was lost, and their souls was lost, and that for ever. God writes a nothing upon all those services wherein mens ends are not right, Jer. 32.23. But,
Tenthly, No man can sincerely desire & earnestly endeavour §10after the highest pitches of grace, but he that has true grace; though the weak Christian has but a little grace in his heart,1 yet he has the top of grace, the perfection of grace in his sincere aims, in his sincere desires, and in his earnest and constant endeavours; and if the weakest Saint might have his ⟨p. 184⟩desires, his mind, his wish, his will, his choice, he would never sin more, he would never dishonour Jesus Christ more, he would never grieve the spirit of grace more, he would yield unsinning obedience, he would obey in this lower world, as the Angels, and as the spirits of just men made perfect do obey in that upper world;2 the weakest Christian has his eye to the highest round in Jacob's ladder, and fain he would be at the top of it; and Oh, how sweet is every Providence, and every Ordinance, and every duty, and every mercy, and every opportunity, that helps his soul more Christ-wards, and heaven-wards, and holiness-wards! sincere desires, and serious endeavours to grow in grace,