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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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First, You shall find repenting sinners confessing their §1sins, Ezra 9.6. O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face unto thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. 1Ver. 10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, &c. Psal. 51.3. I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Ver. 4. Against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, Dan. 9.4, 5. I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, &c. We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments, &c. Ver. 8. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. Luke 15.18. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. Ver. 19. And am no more worthy to be called thy son, &c. 1 Cor. 15.9. For I am the least of all the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God, 1 Tim. 1.13. Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, &c. Isa. 53.6. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. I might easily produce a hundred other Scriptures to prove that repenting sinners are confessing sinners, but let these suffice, &c.
First, You shall find repenting sinners confessing their §1