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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, Unholy persons are full of contrariety to God; §4their natures, principles, practises, aims, minds, wills, affections, judgements, intentions, and resolutions,1 are contrary to God, his name, nature, being, truth and glory; you may as soon bring East and West, North and South, light and darkness, heaven and hell together, as you shall bring a holy God and unholy souls together. Antipathies will never incorporate; as soon may midnight be married to the noonday, as a holy God embrace an unholy sinner. That unholy persons are made up of contrarieties to God, is most evident, as you may see in Isa. 22.12, 13. And in that day did the Lord God of Hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldnest, and to girding with sack-cloth: And behold, joy, and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die. These ⟨p. 28⟩sad souls practise quite contrary to what the Lord calls for at their hands:2 he calls them to weeping, and mourning; and behold joy and gladness: he calls them to fasting, and behold here is nothing but feasting, carousing, and making merry, and jovial, and that in contempt of God and his dreadful judgements. Unholy persons are like the Rainbow; now the Rainbow is never on that side of the world that the Sun is on; but whensoever it appears, it is still in opposition against the Sun if the Sun be in the East, the Rainbow is in the West, &c. So unholy souls in all their actings and walkings will still be opposite to God; they will still be cross and contrary to him, John 8.38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father. Unholy hearts are full of the highest strains of contrariety and opposition against the Lord. I have read of a King (that Reigned in no very remote part of the world) who having received a blow from the hand of God, took a solemn Oath to be revenged on him; and ordained that for ten years space no man should pray to him, speak of him, nor so long as he was in Authority, to believe in him. O the vanity, the contrariety and blasphemy of this Prince! Now we will not admit such to be about us who are made up of contrarieties to us: and will God, will God? heaven and earth, fire and water, the Woolf and the Lamb, the Winds and the Sea will sooner accord then a holy God, and an unholy heart.