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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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Fifthly: The rich and precious box of a good Conscience §5(saith another) is polluted and made impure, if but one dead fly be suffered in it. One sin being quietly permitted, and suffered to live in the soul, without being disturbed, resisted, resolved against, or lamented over, will certainly mar the peace of a good Conscience.
Sixthly: Where there is but any one sin (saith another) §.6nourished and fostered, all other our graces are not only blemished, but abolished, they are no graces; Dike, of the deceitfulness of the heat, chap. 16.
Sixthly: Where there is but any one sin (saith another) §.6nourished and fostered, all other our graces are not only blemished, but abolished, they are no graces; Dike, of the deceiptfulness of the heat, chap. 16.
Seventhly: Most true is that saying of Aquinus, That all sins are coupled together, though not in regard of conversion to temporal good, for some look to the good of gain, some of glory, some of pleasure; yet in regard of aversion from eternal good, that is God: So that he that looks but towards one sin, is as much averted and turned back from God, as if he looked to all; in which respect St. James says, He that offendeth in one, is guilty of all, 2 Jam. 10. Now that ye may not mistake Aquinas, nor the Scripture he cites, you must remember that the whole Law is but one copulative, Exod. 16. 18.