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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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Sixthly, Men should keep their hearts, as a fond father §6keeps his only child; the fond father will still keep his child within doors, he will still have him under his eye, and in his presence, that so no hurt, no harm may befall him day or night. Our eye should be still upon our hearts, or else they will give us the slip, and play the wantons with us. But,
Sixthly, Men should keep their hearts, as a fond father §6keeps his only child; the fond father will still keep his child within doors, he will still have him under his eye, and in his presence, that so no hurt, no harm may befal him day or night. Our eye should be still upon our hearts, or else they will give us the slip, and play the wantons with us. But,
Seventhly, Men should keep their hearts, as Lovers keep §7the love-tokens that are mutually sent one to another; they love to be often a looking upon them, and a thinking of them, and a talking of them; and will be sure to keep the strictest and the strongest guard upon them: So a Christian should still be a looking upon his heart, and a thinking upon his heart, and a speaking of his heart (either of the badness of it, or of the wants of it) and a keeping of the strictest and strongest guard upon his heart. But,
Eighthly, A man should keep his heart as a man keeps his ⟨p. 212⟩§8house, when he is afraid and in danger of being robbed by thieves in the night. O! how wakeful, and watchful, and active will a man now be? but what's a man's house to his heart? A mans heart is in ten thousand times more danger than his house, and accordingly his guard should be most about his heart. But,