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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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Twelfthly, No man can sincerely desire to abound and §12excel most in those particular graces which are most opposite and contrary to those particular sins which his natural temper, constitution, complexion, calling, or condition, ⟨p. 188⟩does most expose him and incline him to, but he that has true grace, but he whose heart is sincere with God, Psal. 18.23. I was upright before him, and I kept my self from mine iniquity. If passion be a sincere Christians head-lust, then his desires run most out for meekness; if pride, then his desires are most for humility; if earthliness, then his desires are most for heavenly-mindedness; if unbelief, then his desire,1 are most for faith; you shall then find him with the Disciples, crying out, Lord, increase our faith. But now, though a wicked mans heart rise against every grace, yet it rises most strongly against those particular graces which are most opposite and contrary to those particular lusts which are a wicked mans bosom lusts,2 his darling sins, &c. Hence the covetous heart rises and swells most against liberality, as you see in Judas, 3What need this waste? Flesh and blood looks upon all as lost that is laid out upon Christ, his servants and services. And the luke-warm Christians heart rises and swells most against zeal and fervency; and the griping Usurers heart rises and swells most against restitution;4 and the adulterers heart rises and swells most against purity, chastity, continency; and the ignorant mans heart rises and swells most against light and knowledge;5 the ignorant man is willing to go to hell in the dark, and ready, and bold enough to conclude, that we never had such sad and bad times as we have had, since there hath been so much preaching, and so much hearing, and so much fasting, and so much praying, and so much light and knowledge in the world. But now it is quite otherwise with a true child of God,