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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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Of Grace and Graces. Where there is any one grace in truth, there is every grace in truth Page 7, 8, 9 The sense and evidence of the least grace, yea of the least degree of the least grace, may afford some measure of assurance. Page 17, 18, 19, 20 Probabilities of grace may be a great stay, support and comfort to poor Christians that want assurance; probabilities of grace are mercies more worth than ten thousand worlds. This is made good by ten Arguments. Page 60, to 65 Six considerable things about probabilities of grace. Page 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 If a Christian can't say he has grace, yet he should not say he has no grace; for he may have grace, and yet not know it. Page 81, 82 He that prizes the least dram of grace above ten thousand thousand worlds, certainly that man has true grace in him. Page 200 Tis the wisdom, and ought to be the work of every Christian to own the least measure of grace that is in him, though it be mixed and mingled with many weaknesses & infirmities. Page 332, 333 'Tis the wisdom, and should be the work of every Christian, to look upon all his graces and gracious evidences, as favours given him from above, as gifts dropped out of heaven into his heart, as flowers of Paradise stuck in his bosom by a divine hand. Page 333, 334 335 When you look upon your graces in the light of the spirit, it highly concerns you to look narrowly to it, that you don't renounce and reject your graces as weak and worthless evidences of your interest in Christ, &c. Page 335, 336, 337 The spirit does four things in respect of our graces Page 348 Christians may safely rejoice in their graces. Page 349, 350, 351 The more grace any man hath, the more clear, the more fair, the more full, the more sweet will his evidences be for heaven, &c. Page 378, 379, 380, 381, 382 When your graces are strongest, and your evidences for heaven are clearest, and your comforts rise-highest, then in a special manner it concerns you to