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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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O Sirs! A sincere Christian makes it his great business to get his heart into all his Religious duties and services, to get his heart into every way and work of God.1 Jehoshaphats heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. So David, I'll praise thee, 2O Lord, with all my heart. And so Psal. 119.7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart. Ver. 10. With my whole heart have I sought thee. So Jehoshaphat he sought the Lord with all his heart, Isa. 26.8. The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Vers. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. Lamen. 3.41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. Rom. 1.9. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son. Pauls very spirit, his very soul was in his service. Phil. 3.3. For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Rom. 7.22. I delight in the Law of God after the inward man. Ver. 25. With the mind I my self serve the Law of God. A sincere Christian is always best when his heart is in his work; and when he can't get his heart into his duties! Oh, how does he sigh, and groan, and complain, and mourn at the foot of God? Lord! my tongue has been at work, and my head has been at work, and my parts have been at work, and my eyes and hands have been at work, but where has my heart been this day? Oh, it is and must be for a sore and sad lamentation, that I have had so little of my heart in that service that I have tendered to thee! This is the daily language of an upright heart. But now all the work of an hypocrite, is to get his golden parts into his duties, and his silver tongue into his duties, and his nimble head into his duties; but he never makes conscience of getting his heart into his duties. If any beasts sacrificed by Heathens (who ever looked narrowly into the entrails) was found without heart, this was held ominous, and construed