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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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As sin makes a separation between God and a man's soul, so godly sorrow makes a separation between a man's soul and his sin. All holy mournings over sin, will by degrees issue in the wasting and weakening of the strength and power of sin, nothing below the death and destruction of sin will satisfy that soul that truly mourns over sin.
As sin makes a separation between God and a man's soul, so godly sorrow makes a separation between a man's soul and his sin. All holy mournings over sin, will by degrees issue in the wasting and weakning of the strength and power of sin, nothing below the death and destruction of sin will satisfie that soul that truly mourns over sin.
But now, though you may find an unsound heart sometimes a lamenting over his sins, yet you shall never find him a leaving off his sins. Pharaoh lamented over his sin, crying out, I have sinned, 1the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. And again, Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. But though you find him here lamenting and complaining over his sin, yet you never find him leaving or forsaking of his sin. So Saul could cry out, he had sinned, but yet he still continued in his sin; he acknowledged that he did evil in persecuting of David, and yet he still held on persecuting of him. An unsound heart mourns over sin, and yet he holds on in a course of sin; he sins and mourns, and mourns and sins, and commonly all his mourning for sin does but the more embolden him in a way of sin; but the gracious soul says with Job, 2If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more. He laments over sin and leaves it, he confesses it and forsakes it, and he is as willing to forgo it, as he is willing that God should forgive it.
But now, though you may find an unsound heart sometimes a lamenting over his sins, yet you shall never find him a leaving off his sins. Pharaoh lamented over his sin, crying out, I have sinned,