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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.
There can be no amity where there is a spiritual Antipathy.
5. Fifthly, Without holiness no man can have any spiritual communion with God in this world; he may hear, but he can have no communion with God in hearing without holiness; he may pray, but he can have no communion with God in prayer without holiness: he may come to the Sacrament, but he can have no communion with God in the Sacrament without holiness; he may come into the communion of Saints, but he can have no communion with God in the communion of Saints without holiness: he may read and meditate, but he can have no communion with God in ⟨p. 29⟩reading and meditation without holiness, Deut. 23.14. For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy Camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy Camp be holy, that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. Keep up holiness among you, and you shall keep me among you, saith God; but if you turn away from holiness, I will undoubtedly turn away from you: a holy God will keep company with none but those that are holy. Holiness is the bond that ties God and souls together: God will cleave close to them who in holiness cleave fast to him: but if he see uncleanness and wickedness among you, he will certainly turn away from you. The holy spirit gives the lye to those that say they have fellowship with God, and yet maintain familiarity and fellowship with sin, 1 John 1.6. If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lye. The Apostle dares give the lye to any man (without fearing the stab) who pretends to communion with God, and yet walks in darkness. Men may be much in Ordinances, and yet for want of holiness may have no communion at all with God in Ordinances. Isaiah 1.11.— 18. and though communion with God in Ordinances is the very life and soul of Ordinances; yet multitudes who enjoy Ordinances can content and satisfy themselves without that which is the very life, soul and quintessence of Ordinances. There are many that cry out, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, who have no communion with the Lord of the Temple at all,