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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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Ninthly: This opinion that is now under consideration, §9has a very great tendency to discourage and deaden the hearts of Christians to the most noble and spiritual ⟨p. 23⟩duties of Religion, viz. 1. Praising of God. 2. Delighting in God. 3. Rejoicing in God. 4. Admiring of God. 5. Taking full content and satisfaction in God. 6. Witnessing for God, his Truth, his Ordinances and ways. 7. To self-trial and self-examination. 8. To the making of their Calling and Election sure. I cannot see with what comfort, confidence, or courage, such souls can apply themselves to the Eight duties last mentioned, who lye under the power of this opinion, viz. That Saints have their beloved sins, their bosom sins, their darling sins: But now when a Christian is clear, and he can clear himself, (as every sincere Christian can) of beloved sins, of bosom sins, of darling sins, how is he upon the advantage ground to fall in roundly with all the Eight duties last mentioned? But
Ninethly: This opinion that is now under consideration, §9has a very great tendancy to discourage and deaden the hearts of Christians to the most noble and spiritual ⟨p. 23⟩duties of Religion, viz. 1. Praising of God. 2. Delighting in God. 3. Rejoycing in God. 4. Admiring of God. 5. Taking full content and satisfaction in God. 6. Witnessing for God, his Truth, his Ordinances and ways. 7. To self-tryal and self-examination. 8. To the making of their Calling and Election sure. I cannot see with what comfort, confidence, or courage, such souls can apply themselves to the Eight duties last mentioned, who lye under the power of this opinion, viz. That Saints have their beloved sins, their bosom sins, their darling sins: But now when a Christian is clear, and he can clear himself, (as every sincere Christian can) of beloved sins, of bosom sins, of darling sins, how is he upon the advantage ground to fall in roundly with all the Eight duties last mentioned? But