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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.
and yet such spiritual fools are wicked man, that they let slip such seasons of grace and mercy, that cannot be redeemed with ten thousand worlds. Ah how is man fallen from his primitive nobility and glory, that these little busy creatures are propounded as a pattern of diligence and wisdom unto him! The Ancients painted Opportunity with a hairy forehead, but bald behind, to signify that while a man hath it before him, he may lay hold on it, but ⟨p. 33⟩if he lets it slip away, he cannot pull it back again. There is a great truth in what the Rabbi hath long since said, Nemo est cui non sit hora sua; Every man hath his hour: and he who overslips his season, may never meet with the like again; There are many thousand spiritual fools in hell: that find this true by experience, and therefore now they bewail their folly, but all too late, all too late.
and yet such spiritual fools are wicked man, that they let slip such seasons of grace and mercy, that cannot be redeemed with ten thousand worlds. Ah how is man fallen from his primitive nobility and glory, that these little busie creatures are propounded as a pattern of diligence and wisdom unto him! The Antients painted Opportunity with a hairy forehead, but bald behind, to signifie that while a man hath it before him, he may lay hold on it, but ⟨p. 33⟩if he lets it slip away, he cannot pull it back again. There is a great truth in what the Rabbi hath long since said, Nemo est cui non sit hora sua; Every man hath his hour: and he who overslips his season, may never meet with the like again; There are many thousand spiritual fools in hell: that find this true by experience, and therefore now they bewail their folly, but all too late, all too late.
Thirdly, Natural fools are very inconstant, they are never long in one mind: now they are for this,1