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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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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,1 or comfort, or the promises, or Christ, or heaven, to take God's name into their lips, seeing they secretly hate to be reformed. There are many fair Professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These mens conversions shame their profession, and therefore they cry out against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a mans justification: Such sinners as live in a course of sin, that make a Trade of sin,2 that indulge their sins, that take up arms in defence of sin, that make provision for sin, that make a sport of sin, that take pleasure in sin, and that have set their hearts upon their ⟨p. 339⟩sins; such sinners can't but look upon the witness of sanctification, as the hand-writing upon the wall, Dan. 5.5, 6. 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 testifie 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,