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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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Seventhly, He yet further aggravates his sin by his madness, by his exceeding madness against the Saints, in those words; And I was exceedingly mad against them. He was mad with rage and wrath, he was exceedingly mad with passion and fury against the dear Saints of God; mad men think madly, and mad men speak madly, and mad men act madly against those they are mad with; and so did he against the Saints. The Alcoran saith, That God created the Angels of light, and the Devils of the flame. Certainly, as God's children are children of the light, so Satan's children are furious children, wrathful children, children of the flame, children of madness; and such a one was Paul, &c.
Eighthly and lastly, I did persecute them to strange Cities; them I did not kill I did scatter, I forced them to leave both house and home; them whom God had joined together, I put asunder; I made the husband run one way, and the wife and children another way, and all of them glad to hide their heads in a corner. And thus you see, that true penitents in the confession of their sins, do clothe their sins with the highest aggravations imaginable. A penitent in his confession of sin cries out, O! the sparing mercies, the preventing mercies, the succouring mercies, the supporting mercies, the renewed mercies, the delivering mercies that I have with a high hand sinned against. O, that clear light! O, that free love! O, that Gospel grace! O, those bowels of mercy that I have sinned against! O, the fatherly corrections, the dreadful warnings, the high resolutions, the serious protestations, the frequent vows and promises that I have desperately sinned against! O, the checks of conscience, the rebukes of conscience, ⟨p. 247⟩the lashes of conscience, the wounds of conscience, and the frequent motions of the spirit, and strivings of the spirit, that I have sinned against! &c. But now wicked men confess their sins slightly, carelessly, triflingly; they are careful and skilful to hide their sins, to cloak their sins, and to extenuate and lessen their sins; and with the unjust Steward, for an hundred to set down fifty.