A29686:543
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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But some may be ready to object Object. and say, Sir, this is a hard saying, who can hear it? who can bear it?1 who shall then be saved? for if a man repents not unless he turns from every sin, then there is not a man to be found in all the world that repents; for there is not a man in all the world that turns from every sin, that forsakes every sin, &c. 1 King. 8.46. For there is no man that sinneth not. Prov. 20.9. Who can say, 2I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin: It is a question that implies a strong denial. Who can say it, and say it truly, that he is pure from his sin? surely none. He that shall say that he has made his heart clean, and that he is pure from his sin, sins in so saying; and commonly there are none more unclean than those that say, they have made their hearts clean, nor none more impure than they that say they are pure from their sin, Eccl. 7.20. For there is not a just man upon the earth, that doth good and sinneth not. These words in their absolute sense, are a full testimony of the imperfection of our inherent righteousness in this life, and that even justified persons come very short of that exact and perfect obedience which the Law requireth, James 3.2. For in many things we offend all, or (as the Greek has it) we stumble all. 'Tis a metaphor taken from Travellers walking on stony or slippery ground, who are very apt to stumble or slide. This Apostle was worthily called James the just, and yet he numbers himself among the rest of the sanctified ones, that in many things offended all. The Apostle does not say, in many things they offend all, but in many things we offend all. We that have more gifts than others, we that have more grace than others, we that have more assurance than others, we that have more experiences than others, we that have more preservatives to keep us from sin than others, even we in many things offend all; nor the Apostle doth not say, in ⟨p. 270⟩