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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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Thirdly, True love to the Saints is universal to one Christian as well as another, to all as well as any, to poor Lazarus as well as to rich Abraham, to a despised Job as well as to an admired David, to an afflicted Joseph as well as to a raised Jacob, to a despised Disciple as well as to an exalted ⟨p. 193⟩Apostle, Eph. 1.15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the Saints. Col. 1.4. Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the Saints. Faith in Christ Jesus maketh love to all the Saints; therefore they go commonly coupled in Pauls Epistles. It was the glory of the Ephesians and Colossians, that their faith and love reached to all the Saints; their love was not a narrow love, a love confined to some particular Saints, but it was universal to all Saints, Phil. 4.21. Salute every Saint in Christ Jesus; the meanest as well as the •ichest, the weakest as well as the strongest, the lowest as well as the highest, and those that have many infirmities as well as those that have fewer infirmities,1 and those that have but mean parts and gifts, as well as those that have the strongest parts, and the most raised gifts. All Saints have the same Spirit, the same Jesus, the same Faith, &c. they are all fellow-members, fellow-travellers, fellow-soldiers, fellow-Citizens, fellow-heirs, and therefore must they all be loved with a sincere and cordial love: Love is set upon the brotherhood, upon the whole fraternity of Believers, and not here and there upon one. Divine love casts an eye of favour upon grace in rags, upon a dunghill, in a dungeon, a den, a prison, a fiery-furnace;2 grace is as lovely in the illiterate as in the greatest Scholar, in the servant as in the Master, in the maid as in the Mistress, in the child as in the Father, in the subject as in the Prince, in the buyer as in the seller, &c. Look, as all our delight must be in the Saints, so our delight must be in all the Saints. 'Tis sad & sinful to contemn our poor brethren; and yet this was the very case of the Corinthians,