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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.
The word also hath a signification of seven [Greek or Hebrew] as having reference (say some) to the seven spirits of God before the throne, before whom we swear, and therefore should never swear but in truth, righteousness and Judgment, Jer. 4.2. Rev. 1.4. Ch. 5, 6. one day you shall have these spiritual fools these profane fools crying out, O! heaven, heaven, heaven: O! That we may go to heaven; and the next day you shall see them live as if there were neither heaven nor hell: one day with Balaam you shall have them wish, Oh that we might die the death of the righteous! and the next day with Saul you shall have them a persecuting of the righteous to death: one day you shall have them cry out What shall we do to be saved! and the next day you shall see them live as if they were resolved to be damned. Thus these spiritual fools like natural fools are always §4fickle and inconstant.
The word also hath a signification of seven 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as having reference (say some) to the seven spirits of God before the throne, before whom we swear, and therefore should never swear but in truth, righteousness and Judgemen, Jer. 4.2. Rev. 1.4. Ch. 5, 6. one day you shall have these spiritual fools these prophane fools crying out, O! heaven, heaven, heaven: O! That we may go to heaven; and the next day you shall see them live as if there were neither heaven nor hell: one day with Balaam you shall have them wish, Oh that we might die the death of the righteous! and the next day with Saul you shall have them a persecuting of the righteous to death: one day you shall have them cry out What shall we do to be saved! and the next day you shall see them live as if they were resolved to be damned. Thus these spititual fools like natural fools are always §4fickle and inconstant.