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The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…
The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered in LVIII sermons from Heb. 12. 14, where you have the necessity, excellency, rarity, beauty and glory of holiness set forth, with the resolution of many weighty questions and cases, also motives and means to perfect holiness : with many other things of very high and great importance to all the sons and daughters of men, that had rather be blessed then cursed, saved then damned / by Thomas Brooks ...The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered in LVIII sermons from Heb. 12. 14, where you have the necessity, excellency, rarity, beauty and glory of holiness set forth, with the resolution of many weighty questions and cases, also motives and means to perfect holiness : with many other things of very high and great importance to all the sons and daughters of men, that had rather be blessed then cursed, saved then damned / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for H. Crips, 1662
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.
thine own misery, nor Christs mercy: thine own insufficiency, nor Christs all-sufficiency: thine own vanity, nor Christs glory, &c. Multi multa sciunt, se autem nemo: Many know much, but few know themselves, or their own danger, infelicity, or misery: and indeed no misery to this. The Chinese use to say of themselves, that all other Nations of the world did see but with one eye, they only with two; and of this spirit and temper were those blind Laodiceans: they thought they knew all things, when they knew nothing that they should, nor as they should. By all which you may see, that there is an imaginary holiness, a conceited holiness, where there is no real holiness; but an imaginary holiness will bring a man but to an imaginary blessedness; a conceited holiness will bring a man but to a conceited happiness; he that doth but dream that he is holy, he doth but dream that he shall be happy.
thine own misery, nor Christs mercy: thine own insufficiency, nor Christs alsufficiency: thine own vanity, nor Christs glory, &c. Multi multa sciunt, se autem nemo: Many know much, but few know themselves, or their own danger, infelicity, or misery: and indeed no misery to this. The Chineses use to say of themselves, that all other Nations of the world did see but with one eye, they only with two; and of this spirit and temper were those blind Laodiceans: they thought they knew all things, when they knew nothing that they should, nor as they should. By all which you may see, that there is an imaginary holiness, a conceited holiness, where there is no real holiness; but an imaginary holiness will bring a man but to an imaginary blessedness; a conceited holiness will bring a man but to a conceited happiness; he that doth but dream that he is holy, he doth but dream that he shall be happy.
Bastards of old were not to inherit,1 but to be thrust out from among the true heirs, Judges 11.1, 2. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah: And Gileads wife bare him sons, and his wives sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our Fathers house, for thou art the son of a strange woman. Ah Sirs, you that are but bastard Christians, bastard Professors, bastard Believers, bastard Saints, you shall never inherit