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Ecclesia Monilia. The peculiar treasure of the Almighty King opened; and the jewels that…
Ecclesia Monilia. The peculiar treasure of the Almighty King opened; and the jewels that are made up in it, exposed. At Boston lecture, July 14. 1726. Whereof one is more particularly exhibited, in the character of Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, who was laid up a few days before. : And certain instruments and memorials of piety, written by that valuable & Honourable gentlewoman.
Boston: printed for Daniel Henchman, 1726
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II. WE must Enquire, When and How it is, that the Glorious LORD will make up these Jewels.
Briefly; THERE is a Blessed Bundle of Life, whereof it was once foretold unto a very Bright one among the Jewels of GOD; 1 Sam. XXV. 29 The Soul of my Lord shall be bound in the Bundle of Life with the Lord thy GOD. When a Soul is brought into that Bundle, by being brought unto sincere PIETY, and so into the Life of GOD; And there shall be an Assembling of every such Soul, even, a bringing of them all together in the Enjoyment of Everlasting Life; This is the making up of the Jewels.
THE First Thing to be affirmed, is, That our Glorious LORD makes up His Jewels, when He makes them Jewels. What we read, I make up my Jewels, may be read, I am the Maker of my Jewels. 'Tis verily so; GOD our SAVIOUR, may say of all His Jewels, what is in Isai. LX. 21. They are the Work of my Hands, that I may be glorified. The Children of GOD, are no better than sorry Pebble Stones, till His Good SPIRIT Enter them, and Refine them, and Sublimate them, and make New Creatures of them. That which makes Jewels of them, is This; Eph. II. 10. We are the Workmanship of GOD, created in CHRIST JESUS unto good Works. Learned and Curious Things have been written by Philosophers, about, The Origin of Gems. But the true Origin of these ⟨p. 13⟩Jewels, is a marvellous Work of GOD upon a miserable Soul, Transforming of it; and the imprinting His Image upon it, from Glory to Glory. And there is a making up of the Jewels, in His thus making of them to be what now they are; and so making a Seizure on them. There is an Eternal Purpose of Election, in which it is decreed, That such a Number of Jewels is to be the Peculiar Treasure of GOD; and that such and such Persons are to make up the Number. In the Fullness of Time for it, Every Sinner converted from the Error of his way, is brought into the Possession of GOD, and actually lodged among his Jewels. On every Repenting Sinner, there is this Joy in Heaven, [Oh! wilt thou make it, O Gospelized Soul, upon thy being told so!] Lo, A New Accession to the Number of Jewels, with which Heaven is to be Irradiated!