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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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1Thirdly, Yea what indignation or stomach, [Greek or Hebrew], wrath unto grief; it notes the very rising of the stomach with rage, and a being angry unto fretting, fuming and sickness. Again, it notes the very height of anger and rage. The true penitent is not so exceeding angry with himself for any thing, as he is angry with himself for his sins. Indignation here imports the turning of all the passions of the soul wholly against sin. There are no men in the world so hot and angry against themselves for their sins,2 as penitents are; witness those that polluted the Idols that they had perfumed, Isa. 30.22. witness David, Psal. 73.22. witness Ephraim, Hosea 14.8. and witness Paul, Rom. 7.22, 23. There are none that fret, and fume, and chafe at themselves for sin, as penitent souls do; there are none that loath themselves, that ⟨p. 231⟩abhor themselves, and that are weary of themselves, upon the account of their sins, like penitent souls. 'Tis not this thing, nor that, nor this enemy, nor that, nor this party, nor that, nor this design, nor that; but sin that is the main, the grand object of a penitents hatred, scorn, wrath, rage, reproach, disgrace and contempt, &c. He that would be angry and sin not, must be angry at nothing but sin. If some men would but spend more of their anger and indignation against their sins, they would not be so angry as they are with their brethren, that in disputable things differ from them.
1Thirdly, Yea what indignation or stomack, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, wrath unto grief; it notes the very rising of the stomack with rage, and a being angry unto fretting, fuming and sickness. Again, it notes the very heighth of anger and rage. The true penitent is not so exceeding angry with himself for any thing, as he is angry with himself for his sins. Indignation here imports the turning of all the passions of the soul wholly against sin. There are no men in the world so hot and angry against themselves for their sins,