A29687:118
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.
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 ⟨p. 10⟩among the heirs of glory,2 but shall be thrust out for ever from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power, and thrust into utter darkness, because you have pleased your selves, and satisfied your spirits, and blest your souls in a bastard holiness, in a conceited holiness, Deut. 23.2. A bastard shall not inherit in the Congregation of the Lord: he shall have no fellowship, nor communion with the people of God: the door of Admission shall be shut upon him:3 The foolish Virgins had but a Bastard holiness, a conceited holiness, an outward dress of holiness: and therefore the door of life, the door of hope, the door of help, the door of grace, the door of mercy, the door of glory was shut upon them. William the Conqueror was much slighted and scorned because he was a Bastard: God and his people will slight such, and scorn such, and turn their backs at last upon such that have no more then a bastardly holiness: and therefore this cannot be the holiness here meant: But,
Bastards of old were not to inherit,1 but to be thrust out from among the true heirs, Judges 11.1, 2. Now Jepthah 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