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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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Secondly, Many professors are given up to spiritual judgments (which are the sorest of all judgments) viz. luke-warmness, dead-heartedness, formality, indifferency, Apostasy, blindness, hardness, and to strong delusions, that they should believe a lye,1 because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Now, is it any wonder to see such men quarrel, and wrangle, and rail against the way and method of evidencing the goodness and happiness of a mans spiritual condition, by inherent gracious qualifications? But,
Secondly, Many professors are given up to spiritual judgments (which are the sorest of all judgments) viz. luke-warmness, dead-heartedness, formality, indifferency, Apostacy, blindness, hardness, and to strong delusions, that they should believe a lye,1 because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Now, is it any wonder to see such men quarrel, and wrangle, and rail against the way and method of evidencing the goodness and happiness of a mans spiritual condition, by inherent gracious qualifications? But,
Thirdly, In some this ariseth from their lusts, which they indulge and connive at, and which they have a mind to live quietly in; they are desirous to keep their peace, and yet unwilling to forsake their lusts; and hence they exclude this witness of water or sanctification to testify in the Court of Conscience, whether they are beloved of God, or whether they are sincere hearted or no, or whether they have the root of the matter in them or no; for the want of this witness, water or sanctification, is a clear and full witness against them, that they are yet in their sins, under wrath, and in the way to eternal ruin; and that they have nothing to do with peace,