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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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Sixthly, An Hypocrite never embraces a whole Christ, he can never take up his full and everlasting rest, satisfaction §6and content in the person of Christ, in the merits of Christ, ⟨p. 301⟩in the enjoyment of Christ alone. No hypocrite did ever long and mourn after the enjoyment of Christ, as the best thing in all the world; no hypocrite did ever prize Christ for a sanctifier as well as a Saviour; no hypocrite did ever look upon Christ, or long for Christ to deliver him from the power of his sins, as much, or as well as to deliver him from wrath to come; no hypocrite can really love the person of Christ, or take satisfaction in the person of Christ,1 the rays and beam• of Christs glory has never warmed his heart; he never knew what bosom communion with Christ meant. An hypocrite may love to be healed by Christ, and to be pardoned by Christ, and to be saved by Christ, &c. but he can never take any complacency in the person of Christ, his heart never seriously works after union with Christ. The love of a sincere Christian runs much out to the person of Christ, heaven it self without Christ,2 would be to such a soul but a poor thing, a low thing, a little thing, an uncomfortable thing, an empty thing; 'tis the person of Christ that is the sparkling Diamond in the ring of glory. No hypocrite in the world is sincerely willing to receive Christ in all his Offices, and to close with him upon Gospel terms.3 The terms upon which God offers Christ in the Gospel, are these, viz. That we shall accept of a whole Christ with a whole heart. Now mark, a whole Christ includes all his Offices, & a whole heart includes all our faculties: Christ as Mediator is King, Priest and Prophet, and so God the Father in the Gospel offers him. Salvation was too great and too glorious a work to be perfected and completed by any one Office of Christ. Christ as a Prophet instructs us, and as a Priest he redeems us, and intercedes for us, and as a King he sanctifies and saves us. The Apostle hit it when he said, He is made to us of God, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Consider Christ as our Prophet, and so he is made wisdom to us;