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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.
Fourthly, There is a Relative holiness; now Relative holiness §4is a special relation which persons or things have unto God. Relative holiness includes two things.
First, A separation of persons or things from common use: §1and thus in the Law,1 those things were called holy which were separated from common use, and set apart for the Worship and Service of God: As the Oil, Shewbread, First-fruits, Incense, Altars, Vestments; and in this sense the Priests and Levites were called holy, because they were separated from others to serve in the Tabernacle. And in this sense the people of Israel are frequently called a sanctified people, a holy people, &c. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] answers to the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] which commonly signifies that which is appropriated to a holy use: and this is the proper notion of holiness in the Old and New Testament, as I might show you out of some hundred places of Scripture. Now certainly without this holiness of special separation from the common conversation of the world, there is no seeing of God, nor no fruition of God hereafter, 2 Cor. 6.17, 18. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. God will have no communion with any in this world that are not separated from the sinful practises of the world. God will look upon none, he will own none, he will delight in none, he will acknowledge none, he will receive none for his sons and daughters, but such as are separated from all evil vices, and unholy courses. Suitable to this, is Isa. 52.11. Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean things, go ye out of the midst of her; Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Estrange your selves from them that