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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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Eighthly and lastly, There is in every penitent a sincere §8hatred of sin, a universal hatred of sin, Psal. 97.10. Ye that love the Lord hate evil. Prov. 8.13. The fear of the Lord is to ⟨p. 268⟩hate evil. 1Amos 5.15. Hate the evil and love the good. Psal. 119.104. Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. Ver. 128. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way. Ver. 113. I hate vain thoughts, but thy Law do I love. Ver. 163. I hate and abhor lying, but thy Law do I love. True hatred is universal, 'tis of the whole kind; he who hates a toad because it is a toad, hates every toad; he that hates a serpent because it is a serpent, hates every serpent; he that hates a wolf because 'tis a wolf, hates every wolf; he that hates a man because he is holy, hates every man that is holy; and so he that hates sin because it is sin, hates every sin, and therefore he can't but turn from it, and labour to be the death and ruin of it. Holy hatred is an implacable and an irreconcilable affection; you shall as soon reconcile God and Satan together, Christ and Antichrist together, heaven and hell together, as you shall be able to reconcile a penitent soul and his sin together. A true penitent looks upon every sin as contrary to the Law of God, the nature of God, the being of God, the glory of God, and accordingly his heart rises against it; he looks upon every sin as poison, as the vomit of a dog, as the mire of the street, as the* menstruous cloth, which of all things in the Law was most unclean, defiling and polluting; and this turns his heart against every sin, he looks upon every sin as having a hand in apprehending, betraying, binding, scourging, condemning and murdering of his Lord and Master Jesus Christ; and this works him not only to refrain from sin, but to forsake it, and not only to forsake it, but also to abhor it, and to loath it more than hell it self. The penitent soul will do all he can to be the death of every sin that has had a hand in the death of his Lord and Master;