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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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1Sixthly, Yea what zeal. Zeal is an extreme heat of all the affections set against sin, and working strongly towards God. David's zeal did eat up his sin as well as himself. And Paul was as zealous in propagating the Gospel, as he had been furious in persecuting of it. Many mens zeal is hot and burning, when scorns and reproaches are cast upon them; but the penitent man's zeal is most hot and burning, when Religion is scorned, Saints persecuted, truth endangered, and the great and dreadful name of God blasphemed, &c. The zeal of a true penitent will carry him on in a course of godliness, and in a course of mortification, in spite of all the diversions and oppositions that the world, the flesh, and ⟨p. 233⟩the devil can make. Holy zeal is a fire that will make its way through all things, that stands between God and the soul. The true penitent is unchangeably resolved to be hid of his sins what ever it cost him; who ever escapes, who ever lives, he is fully determined his lusts shall die for it; only remember this, though zeal should eat up our sins, yet it must not eat up our wisdom, no more than policy should eat up our zeal.
1Sixthly, Yea what zeal. Zeal is an extream heat of all the affections set against sin, and working strongly towards God. David's zeal did eat up his sin as well as himself. And Paul was as zealous in propagating the Gospel, as he had been furious in persecuting of it. Many mens zeal is hot and burning, when scorns and reproaches are cast upon them; but the penitent man's zeal is most hot and burning, when Religion is scorned, Saints persecuted, truth endangered, and the great and dreadful name of God blasphemed, &c. The zeal of a true penitent will carry him on in a course of godliness, and in a course of mortification, in spight of all the diversions and oppositions that the world, the flesh, and ⟨p. 233⟩the devil can make. Holy zeal is a fire that will make its way through all things, that stands between God and the soul. The true penitent is unchangably resolved to be hid of his sins what ever it cost him; who ever escapes, who ever lives, he is fully determined his lusts shall die for it; only remember this, though zeal should eat up our sins, yet it must not eat up our wisdom, no more than policy should eat up our zeal.