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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.
Secondly, there is a contracted and an habituated Cannot: §2and of this Cannot the Prophet speaks in Jer. 6.10. To ⟨p. 22⟩whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach: they have no delight in it: They had by their carnality, impiety, sensuality, security and obstinacy, contracted upon their poor souls such deafness, wretchedness, unteachableness, and untractableness, that they could neither love the word, nor like it: they could neither take pleasure nor delight in it; nay, they could neither hear it, nor bear it, though it never so nearly concerned the internal and eternal welfare of their souls.1 And of this Cannot the Apostle speaks in 2 Pet. 2.14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin, beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices: cursed children. By their riot and excess, by their lasciviousness and wantonness, by their looseness and uncleanness which they had habituated and accustomed themselves unto, they brought upon themselves a cursed necessity of sinning, so that they could not cease from sin: They mourn over sin, and yet they cannot cease from sin: they resolve against sin, yet they cannot cease to sins they pray against sin, yet they cannot cease to sin: they make many promises, vows, and Covenants against sin, yet they cannot cease from sin, their souls being habituated and accustomated thereunto, Jer. 2.20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst I will not transgress: (I will never play the harlot more: but were they as good as their word? no,) for upon every high hill, and under every green tree, they wandered playing the harlot. I have read of a man who in the time of his sickness, was so terrified in his conscience for his sins, that he made the very bed to shake upon which he lay: and cried out all night long, I am damned, I am damned, and made many great promises and protestations of amendment of life, if God would be pleased to recover him; In a little while he did recover: and being recovered, he was as base and vile, as wretched and wicked as ever he was before. Custom in sin takes away all conscience of sin,