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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly: The fixed purposes and designs of a Godly man, is not to sin, Psal. 17. 3. I am purposed that my §7mouth shall not transgress; that is, I have laid my design so, as not to sin. Though may have many particular failings, yet my general purpose is not to sin, Psal. 39. 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a Bridle, while the wicked is before me. When ever a Godly man sins, he sins against the general purpose of his Soul. David laid a Law upon his tongue; he uses three words in the first and second verses to the same purpose, which is, as if he should say in plain English, I was silent, I was silent, I was silent; and all this to express how he kept in his passion, that he might not offend with his tongue. Though a Godly man sins, yet he doth not purpose to sin, for his purposes are sixth against sin; Holiness is his high-way; and as sin is it self a by-way, so it is besides his way. The honest Traveller purposes to keep straight on his way; so that if at any time he miss his way, he misses his purpose. Though Peter denied Christ, yet ⟨p. 7⟩he did not purpose to deny Christ; yea, the settled purpose of his Soul, was rather to die with Christ, than to deny Christ, Math. 26. 35. Peter said unto him, Though I should dye with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Interpreters agree that Peter meant as he speak. But
Seventhly: The fixed purposes and designs of a Godly man, is not to sin, Psal. 17. 3. I am purposed that my §7mouth shall not transgress; that is, I have laid my design so, as not to sin. Though may have many perticular failings, yet my general purpose is not to sin, Psal. 39. 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a Bridle, while the wicked is before me. When ever a Godly man sins, he sins against the general purpose of his Soul. David laid a Law upon his tongue; he uses three words in the first and second verses to the same purpose, which is, as if he should say in plain English, I was silent, I was silent, I was silent; and all this to express how he kept in his passion, that he might not offend with his tongue. Though a Godly man sins, yet he doth not purpose to sin, for his purposes are fixt against sin; Holiness is his high-way; and as sin is it self a by-way, so it is besides his way. The honest Traveller purposes to keep straight on his way; so that if at any time he misse his way, he misses his purpose. Though Peter denyed Christ, yet