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A29686	A cabinet of choice jevvels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for eternity, and how 'tis like to go with them in another world ... / by Thomas Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4937; ESTC R1926	368,116	442

won the man So when sin hath lost the will it hath lost the man The will is the heart My Son give me thy heart is My Son give me thy will the will is the Fort-Royal of the Soul t is that strong hold that stands out stoutest and longest against all the Assaults of Heaven when the will is won all is won the Castle is won the heart is won the man is won when the will is won A mans judgment and reason may say I ought t●●●rn from sin and his Conscience may say I must turn from sin or it will be bitterness in the end and yet the work not done nor the Soul won but when the heart sayes the will sayes I will turn from sin then the work is done and the man is won Where reason saith these lusts ought to be subdued and the Conscience saith these lusts must be subdued and the Will saith these lusts shall be subdued Psal 65.3 As for our transgressions thou sha●t purge them away there is a saving work upon the Soul When the will ceases to sin as Ephraim said to his Idols Get you hence what have I any more to do with you then the work of God is begun in power upon the Soul A universal willingness to be rid of all sin speaks the heart to be sound and sincere with God the enmity that Grace works in the heart against sin is against the whole kind t is against all sin as well profitable and pleasurable sins as disparaging and disgracing sins and as well against small sins as ag●inst great sins true Grace strikes at root and branch at head and members at father and son A true Israelite would not have one Canaanite left in the Holy Land he would have every Egyptian drowned in the Red Sea of Christs bloud Psal 119.104 I hate every false way Psal 139. ult Search me O Lord and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting Saving Grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a Slave is willing to leave his Gally or a Prisoner his Dungeon or a Thief his Bolts or a Beggar his rags But now take a man that is in his natural condition and he is as unwilling to part with his sins as Abraham was to turn Hagar and Ishmael out of doors Ambrose reports of one Theotimus that having a disease upon his body the Physician told him That except he did abstain from intemperance drunkenness uncleanness c. he was like to lose his eyes his heart was so desperately set upon his lusts that he answered Vale lumen amicum Farewel sweet Light then he had rather lose his eyes than leave his sins So they in Micha 6.6 7. do make very large offers for a dispensation to live in their sins They offer Calves of a year old they offer thousands of Rams and ten thousand Rivers of Oyl yea they offer their first born for thei●●●ansgressions the fruit of their bodies for the sin of their souls Sinners hearts are so glued to their lusts that they will rather part with their nearest dearest and choicest enjoyments than part with their sins yea when they are put hard to it they will rather part with God Christ and all the glory of another world than they will part with some base bosom lust witness that young man in the Gospel who went away sorrowful because he had great possessions Matth. 19.21 22. Look as a man leaves his Wife and Children Gen. 21.11 Matth. 19 21 22. 2 Sam. 3.15 16. Augustin in his youth before his Conversion prayed thus I said indeed with my lips Lord give and yet in my heart I was too willing to give longer day and could have said Lord pray not yet I was even afraid lest thou shouldst hear me too soon and too soon heal and subdue my corruption for me Aug. Con. his Countrey Estate and Trade with tears in his eyes and sorrow in his heart so does an unregenerate man leave his lusts with tears in his eyes and sorrow in his heart Very observable is the story of Phaltiel David had Married Michol Saul injuriously gave her to another when David came to the Crown and was able to speak a word of command he sends for his wife Michol her Husband dares not but obey he brings her on her journey and then not without great reluctancy of spirit takes his leave of her But what was Phaltiel weary of his Wife that he now forsakes her O no he was forced to it and though she was gone yet he cast many a sad thought after her and never leaves looking till he sees her as far as Bahurim weeping and bemoaning her absence And just thus t is with carnal and unregenerate men who though for fear or some other reasons they shake hands with their sins yet they have many a longing heart after them they part but t is upon a force they part and yet they are very loath to part asunder Look as the Merchant throws away his goods in a storm because he cannot keep them so carnal ●en in times of sickness and distress or in times of horror and terror of Conscience or when death the King of terrors knocks at their doors or when they see Hell gaping to devour them and God as a terrible Judg standing ready to pass an eternal doom upon them then they are willing to cast overboard their usury their drunkenness their Swearing their Cursing their Lying their Flesh-pleasing c. but not out of any hatred to their lusts but out of love to themselves and out of fear of being damned c. for could they but enjoy their sins and Heaven too sin and they would never part But now were there no danger no wrath no hell no damnation no seperation from God attending sin yet a gracious Soul would be heartily willing to part with all sin and to be rid of all sin upon the account of the vile nature of sin upon the account of the defiling and polluting nature of sin of all things in the World sin is the most defiling thing it makes us red with guilt and black with filth t is compared to a menstruous cloath Isa 30.22 which of all unclean things in the Law was the most unclean as some observe and upon this very account a gracious soul would be willingly rid of it Secondly A constant habitual willingness to be rid of all sin is an infallible evidence of the truth of grace in the Soul 't is not a transient willingness to be rid of sin when a man is either under some outward trouble or some inward distress that speaks out the truth of saving grace but a permanent lasting and abiding willingness to be rid of sin does Pharaoh in a fit in a fright when Thunder and Hail and Frogs and Flies were upon him was then willing to let Israel go but when his fright was over and the Judgments removed he grew prouder

the threatnings the judgments the wrath the hell that hangs over the head of that one sin hangs over the head of every sin By these hints 't is most evident that the reasons of turning from sin are universally binding to a penitent soul and ther●fore he turns not from some sins only but from every sin he sayes not to one but to all his Idols Get you hence for what have I any more to do with you Fifthly One sin allowed wallowed and tumbled in is sufficient to deprive a man for ever of the greatest good Moses came within the sight of Canaan but for one sin viz. not sanctifying God's name at the water of Meribah he was shut out for him to be so neer the holy Land Exod. 22. and yet so far off from entring into it was doubtless of all stroaks the hardest that ever he felt In the Law Levit. 13. the Leper that had the spot of leprosie in any one part of his body was accounted a Leper although all the rest of his body were sound and whole and accordingly he was to be shut up and shut out from the society and company of the people of God so one sin one leprous spot allowed and beloved will for ever shut a man out from the glorious presence of God Christ the Spirit Angels and the spirits of just men made perfect one sin wallowed in will as certainly deprive a man of the blessed vision of God and of all the treasures pleasures and delights that be at God's right hand as a thousand It was a sore vexation to King Lysimachus that he should lose his earthly kingdom for one draught of water O Sirs 't will be an everlasting vexation to such who for one lust shall at last lose not an earthly but a heavenly kingdom One sin stript the fallen Angels of all their glory and one sin stript our first parents of all their dignity and excellency Gen. 3.4 5. Satan by one loud lye to Adam and Eve made fruitless all that God had preached to them immediately before Job ●0 13 To turn from some sins but not from all is gross hypocrisie one sin set up in the love and service of it will keep Christ out of his throne it speaks sin to be rampant and Satan to be victorious and what can be the issue of these things but ruin and damnation Rom. 6.16 One flye in the box of precious ointment spoyls the whole box one thief may rob a man of all his treasure one disease may deprive a man of all his health one strong wind may blow down and blow away all a man's comforts and so one sin delighted and wallowed in will make a man miserable for ever Though this or that particular sin be very pleasant to the flesh and delightful to the fancy yet he is the wisest man and he is the best man and the only blest man in all the world that keeps furthest from it and therefore the true penitent turns not meerly from this or that sin but from every sin Sixthly The principle of Regeneration and seed of grace which God layes into the soul of every penitent person at first conversion is a universal principle a principle that spreads it self over all the faculties of the soul 1 Thes 5.23 and over all the members of the body Psal 45.13 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her cloathing is of wrought gold In regeneration there is infused the habits or principles of all grace Mat. 13.33 which like a divine leaven spreads it self over the whole man Look as Absalom's beauty was spread all over him 2 Sam. 24.25 even from the crown of his head to the soals of his feet so grace spreads it self over every faculty of the soul and over every member of the body Look as Solomon's Temple was all glorious both within and without so that grace which a man receives at first conversion makes him all glorious both within and without John 1.16 Look as Adam's sin spread it self over the whole man so that grace which we receive from the second Adam spreads it self over the whole man And as that grace which was in Christ did diffuse and spread it self over all of Christ so that grace which is in the true penitent does diffuse and spread it self all over the penitent Now look as heaven is contrary to all of hell and as light is contrary to all darkness and heat to all cold so that divine that noble that universal principle of grace which God at first conversion infuses into the penitents soul is contrary to all sin and therefore the penitent turns from all sin But Seventhly The true penitent would have God to forgive him not only some of his sins but all his sins and therefore 't is but just and equal that he should turn from all his sins If God be so faithful and just to forgive us all our sins 1 John 1.9 we must be so faithful and just as to turn from all our sins The plaister must be as broad as the sore and the tent as long and as deep as the wound It argues horrid hypocrisie damnable folly and wonderful impudency for a man to beg the pardon of those very sins that he is resolved never to forsake Look as he that hath any one sin forgiven hath all sins forgiven so he that hath sincerely turned from any one sin he hath turned from every sin and he that hath not repented him of all known sin he hath not yet sincerely repented of any known sin nor as yet experienced the sweetness of forgiveness of sin He that will not renounce those sins that he would have God to remit shall be sure to have a hell of guilt in his conscience Of all fools there is none to him that is very importunate with God to forgive those sins which he is resolved before-hand to commit for what Prince in his wits will pardon his treasons that is resolved to continue a Traitor or what Judge will forgive his thievery that is peremptorily determined to continue a thief or what Husband will pardon his Wife that is resolved to defile his bed with other Lovers Such as continue in the practise of those very sins which they beg a pardon of shall certainly go without their pardon Pardon of sin is for that man and that man is for pardon of sin that is as truly willing to forsake his sins as he is to receive the pardon of his sins Who would not look upon that man as a mad man who should earnestly beg his pardon and yet before his pardon is sealed should afresh cut purses and murder persons before the eyes of the Judge The pardoned soul is the repenting soul and the repenting soul is the pardoned soul Psal 32.2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guil He that begs pardon of sin and is resolved against

mixt with a little heavenly-mindedness and what a deal of unbelief have we mixt with a little faith O Sirs in the great business of your access to God and of your acceptance with God Rom. 3.20 to ver 27. Phil. 3.8 9 10. and of your reconciliation to God and of your justification before God 'T is best safest and noblest to bottom your faith hope and expectation infinitely rather upon imputed righteousness than inherent righteousness upon what Christ has done for you than upon what he has done in you Inherent righteousness is stained imperfect impure but imputed righteousness is pure and perfect if there were any stain or any imperfection in that it could not justifie us it could not save us it could not secure us from wrath to come Such evidences as are not fetcht from any thing in us nor from any things done by us but are fetcht by faith from our free justification and from Christ's full satisfaction which he hath wrought for us will be found the most full the most sweet the most refreshing the most comforting and the most satisfying evidences Christ is all fair all perfect all pure and therefore let him be most in your eye and most upon your hearts but here take heed that you don't look upon your graces or your gracious evidences as poor low weak contemptible things as too many do for the least of them is more worth than heaven and earth and they may yield you much comfort much support much refreshing and much satisfaction though they can't yield you that full comfort nor that full satisfaction as Christ himself can yield as Christ's satisfaction can yield as free justification can yield Though children and friends can't yield to a Wife that full comfort content delight and satisfaction as her Husband does yet they may yield her much comfort much content much delight much satisfaction The application is easie But Secondly Consider That Christian that hath free-grace that hath free justification that hath the Mediatory righteousness of Christ that hath the satisfaction of Christ that hath the Covenant of grace most constantly in his sight and most frequently warm upon his heart that Christian of all Christians in the world is most free from a world of fears and doubts and scruples which do sad sink perplex and press down a world of other Christians who affect a life of sense and who daily eye more what Christ is a doing in them and what they are a doing for Christ than they do eye either his active or passive obedience Christ hath done great things for his people and he has suffered great things for his people and he has purchased great things for his people and he has prepared great things for his people and yet many of his own dear people are so taken up with their own hearts and with their own duties and graces that Christ is little eyed by them or minded by them and what is this but to be more taken with the streams than with the Fountain with the leaves blossoms and fruit than with the Tree it self with the bracelets ear-rings and gold chains than with the Husband himself with the Nobles that wait than with the King that is waited on And this is the great Reason why so many Christians who will certainly go to heaven do walk in darkness and lye down in sorrow But Thirdly Trusting in our own duties and resting on our own righteousness and not on Christ's solely is a close secret spiritual Isa 58.1 2 3. Zech. 7.5 6. dangerous and unperceivable sin which the nature of man is exceedingly prone unto The Pharisees were mightily given up to trust in their own righteousness to rest on their own righteousness Mat. 6. chap. 23 Luke 18. and to boast and glory in their own righteousness and this prov'd their mortal disease their damning sin trusting in their own righteousness had so besotted and benummed them that they had no mind no heart to open the gates of their souls that the King of glory might enter in And this was that which undid the Jews Rom. 10.3 For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God And 't is observable the Apostle useth an emphatical word of a Jew Rom. 2.17 Thou restest in the Law Look as there is nothing more pleasing to Christ than the renouncing of all confidence in our own duties and righteousness so there is nothing more provoking to Christ than the setting up of our own duties and righteousness This is a secret Imposthume that kills thousands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou art secure in the Law as in some admirable priviledge and signal testimony of Gods love This was Bernards temptation when being assisted in duty he could stroak his own head with bene fecisti Bernarde O Bernard this was gallantly done now chear up thy self It was the saying of a precious Saint That he was more afraid of his duties than of his sins for the one made him often proud and the other made him alwayes humble It was good counsel Luther gave Cavendum est non solum à peccatis sed à bonis operibus We must take heed not only of our sins but of our good works Duties can never have too much diligence used about them nor too little confidence placed in them they are good helps but bad Saviours it is necessary we do them but it is dangerous to rely upon them If the devil cannot disswade us from performing Religious duties then his next work will be to perswade us all he can to rely upon them to make Saviours of them because this will as much gratifie Satan and as certainly ruin our souls as if we had wholly neglected them O man thine own righteousness rested in will as certainly and eternally undo thee as the greatest and foulest enormities This soul-sickness is that spiritual Idolatry that will undo thee for thou makest thy self a Saviour and thy duties a Saviour and sayest of thy duties as they did of the golden Calf These are the gods that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt Open wickedness open idolatry slayes her thousands but secret idolatry a secret resting upon duties slayes her ten thousands multitudes bleed inward by this disease and die for ever Open prophaness is the broad dirty way that leads to hell but Religious duties rested in is as sure a way though a cleaner way to hell prophane persons and formal Professors shall meet at last in one hell Ah Christians don 't make Religious duties your money lest you and your money perish together The Phenix gathers sweet odoriferous sticks in Arabia together and then blows them with her wings and burns with them So do many shining Professors burn themselves with their own duties and services You know in Noahs floud all that were not in the Ark though they climb up the tallest Trees and the