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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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Fifthly, True hatred includes a deadly intention and destruction; for nothing satisfies hatred but death and ruin. Saul hated David, 1and sought his life; he hunted him up and down as a Partridge in the mountains, he left no stone unturned, nor no means unattempted, whereby he might revenge himself upon David. Haman hated Mordecai, and nothing would satisfy him but to bring him to a shameful death, to see him hanged on a gallows fifty cubits high (which was designed saith Lyra, to put Mordecai to the greater shame, for he hanging high every one might see him and point to him.) Now when there was but one night betwixt Mordecai and a shameful death, divine providence opportunely struck in and saved h•m from Haman's malice, and caused the mischief which he had plotted against Mordecai, suddenly to fall upon his own ⟨p. 307⟩pate; for he who was highly feasted with the King one day,2 was made a feast for crows the next day. Absalom hated Amnon and killed him. Julian the Apostate hated the Christians with a deadly hatred, he put many thousands of them to death, and threatened and vowed that at his return from fighting against the Persians he would put all the Christians in his Empire to the sword, but God prevented him, by cutting him off in that expedition. A Christian that hates sin, can't be satisfied but in the death and destruction of it; in all his duties the language of his soul is, Lord, let my sins be destroyed, whoever escapes let not my sins escape the hand of thy revenging justice: And in all Ordinances the language of his soul is, O Lord! when shall my sins be subdued and mortified, when shall my cursed corruptions be brought to an under? yea, when shall they all be drowned in the Red-Sea of my Saviours blood, &c.
Fifthly, True hatred includes a deadly intention and destruction; for nothing satisfies hatred but death and ruin. Saul hated David, 1and sought his life; he hunted him up and down as a Partridge in the mountains, he left no stone unturn'd, nor no means unattempted, whereby he might revenge himself upon David. Haman hated Mordecai, and nothing would satisfie him but to bring him to a shameful death, to see him hang'd on a gallows fifty cubits high (which was design'd saith Lyra, to put Mordecai to the greater shame, for he hanging hgh every one might see him and point to him.) Now when there was but one night betwixt Mordecai and a shameful death, divine providence opportunely strook in and saved hm from Haman's malice, and caused the mischief which he had plotted against Mordecai, suddenly to fall upon his own