The cabinet of wealth, or, The temple of wisdom : including our Celestial touchstone : containing a never-failing method to obtain and acquire riches, wisdom, knowledge, wealth, dignities, honour, health, pleasure, happiness, and felicity, both in this world, & in that which is to come : with other matter equally profitable and curious : being a complete directory to an inexhaustable treasury : beautifully adorned with the flowers of literature & the essence of divinity : with a description of the happy man / by Dr. Parkins.

  • Parkins, John.
Date:
1812
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Credit: The cabinet of wealth, or, The temple of wisdom : including our Celestial touchstone : containing a never-failing method to obtain and acquire riches, wisdom, knowledge, wealth, dignities, honour, health, pleasure, happiness, and felicity, both in this world, & in that which is to come : with other matter equally profitable and curious : being a complete directory to an inexhaustable treasury : beautifully adorned with the flowers of literature & the essence of divinity : with a description of the happy man / by Dr. Parkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difficult to the carnal mind, yet if you neglect or refuse t(i learn this great^ necessary, and most important lesson^be assured you had much better never have been borh {Eph. i /^20--32 Deut. \u 0, v, 1. xvii, 19- xxxi, Ig, 13 Isaiah xx\i, 9 10. Matt, ix, 13. xi, 29. Gal. in, 2. Jo/m vi, 45. Phil, iv, 8, 9, 11 —13.); for we are sent into this world to daily work, fight, and pray, which ought to be the principal business of our whole lives (I Tim. 118. iames i , 1, 2^ I Petey* ii^ 11. Acts xiii, 2, iohn X vii, 4. I Cor. iii, i3—17- ix, i, 11 Tim. ii, 4. Za/)nes i, 25. ii, 24. II Cor. xi, i5. Rev.xivy i3. xx, i2, 13. I Tim. vi, i^. 11 Tim. iv, 7. HeZ^. x, 29—32. Luke xviii, 1. I TheSy v, i7). If you live contrary to this rule, I suppose you know the consequences, as we all know that there will be no more than two distinct classes of people ever found amongst us, viz. Righteous and Wicked^ and whoever is not united to the one, must of course be joined unto the other (I Peter iv i7. i8. Matt xvi, 27. 11 Tim, i\\ i4) But if you are desirous to be taught or further instructed in any esseatial pointy subject, matter, or thing, relating to divinity^ if you will only apply, send, or come inito me, your request shall be immediately granted ; for when Saint Paul saw and well knew for himself, what had to learn before he could become a christian, he almost despaired, but God said unto him My grace is sufficient for thee (II Cor. xii, 8—lO). By this Celestial Touchstone yon mdjf thus daily try a d examine all the thoughts^ words, deeds, and actions of your past iis^es, and thereby kno\V for yourselves whether you enioy the favour of Gcd and the hopes of heaven, or otherwise {Jer. xviii^ 8--1O, xxvi, 13 Gen. iv, 7. Psalm eix, 5--7. Prov.x, 16, 19, xiii,6. xiY,95 34 xxi, 4. xxxiv, 9. Isaiah v, 18, 20--25. XXXI, 1. Numbers xxxii, 23. Ezek. xxxiii, 9, 11, i4--20. Isaiah ia8—20. John v, 14, viii^ n. I Cor. xv, 34. Eph. iv, 26--32. HeL x, 26. Matt, vi, i7. Mark i,i5. vi, i2. iMke xin, 3, 5. xvi^ 30^ 3i. xvii> 3^ 4, Acts ii, 38, 39.