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Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether…
Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregational, or a Presbyterial way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all profane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those gross conceits that they have of their children's right to baptism; and of their own right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good counsel to bad men. Or friendly advise (in several particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.
London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653
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When Agesilaus heard the king of Persia, 1styled the great king, saith he, I acknowledge none more excellent then my self, unless more righteous; none greater, unless better.
When Agesilaus heard the king of Persia, 1stiled the great king, saith he, I acknowledg none more excellent then my self, unless more righteous; none greater, unless better.
But to hasten towards a close, you may be very confident of these few things, which I desire, as you tender your own good, you would seriously consider.
1. That those ways of the flesh, wherein now you walk, will be bitterness in the latter end, 1Prov. 14.12. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. Though sin doth come sometimes clothed with a show of reason, and religion, yet the end of it will be death. ⟨p. 23⟩Sin at last will betray your souls into the hands of Satan, as Delilah did Sampson, into the hands of the Philistines. Sin makes the soul black with filth, and red with guilt, and then vengeance follows. The Rabbins were wont to tell their Scholars, to scare them from sin, that every sin made Gods head ache; but, without sound repentance, you will at last find, that every sin will make your hearts ache. Oh, that when you are tempted to sin, you would say, as Demosthenes the Orator, did of the beautiful Lais, when he was asked an excessive sum of money to behold her; I will not (said he) buy repentance so dear. I am not so ill a merchant, as to sell the eternal for the temporal.