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A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to…
A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to the saints present blessedness and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions here you have also the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved ... : you have farther eleven serious singular pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death ... / by Tho. Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Serious and Weighty QUESTIONS, CLEARLY And Satisfactorily Answered.
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Seventhly: This Opinion that is now under consideration, is an Opinion that is very repugnant to sound and sincere Repentance; for sound, sincere Repentance includes and takes in a divorce, an alienation, a detestation, a separation, and a turning from all sin, without exception or reservation. One of the first works of the Spirit upon the Soul, is the dividing between all known sin and the soul; 'tis a making an utter breach betwixt all sin and the soul; 'tis a dissolving of that old League that has been between a Sinner and his sins, yea, between a Sinner and his beloved Lusts. One of the first works of the Spirit, is to make a man to look upon all his sins as Enemies, yea as his greatest Enemies, and to deal with his sins as Enemies, and to hate and loath them as Enemies, and to fear them as Enemies, and to arm against them as Enemies. Seriously ponder upon these Scriptures, Ezek. 18. 28. 30, 31. 14. of Ezek. 6. 2. Cor. 7. 1. ⟨p. 17⟩Psal. 119. 101. 104. 128. verses. True Repentance is a turning from all sin, without any Reservation, or exception; he never truly repented of any sin, whose heart is not turned against every sin. The true penitent casts off all the rags of Old Adam, he is for throwing down every stone of the old building; he will not leave a horn, nor a hoof behind. The reasons of turning from sin, are universally binding to a penitent Soul. There are the same reasons and grounds for a penitent mans turning from every sin, as there is for his turning from any one sin. Do you turn from this or that sin, because the Lord has forbid it, why upon the same ground you must turn from every sin; for God has forbid every sin as well as this or that particular sin. There is the same Authority, forbidding or commanding in all; and if the Authority of God awes a man from one sin, it will awe him from all. He that turns from any one sin, because it is a Transgression of the holy and righteous Law of God, he will turn from every sin upon the same account. He that turns from any one sin, because it is a dishonour to God, a reproach to Christ, a grief to the Spirit, a wound to Religion, &c. will upon the same grounds turn from every sin.