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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.
such shall hang in hell at last, who delight to abuse many at once; the creatures, their Creator, and their own souls and bodies. Well Sirs, Sin is the poison of the soul, the nakedness of the soul, the disease of the soul, the burden of the soul, and if mercy do not prevent, will prove the bane of the soul. O then how great is their folly that delight in it, and that make a sport of it!
such shall hang in hell at last, who delight to abuse many at once; the creatures, their Creator, and their own souls and bodies. Well Sirs, Sin is the poyson of the soul, the nakedness of the soul, the disease of the soul, the burden of the soul, and if mercy do not prevent, will prove the bane of the soul. O then how great is their folly that delight in it, and that make a sport of it!
Fifthly, Natural fools are taken more with the outward §5shine, lustre, beauty and glory of things, then they are taken with the intrinsical virtue, value and worth of them: they are more taken with the shine and lustre of gold, jewels ⟨p. 40⟩and precious stones, then they are with the worth and value of them. So unholy hearts are taken more with the form of godliness then they are with the power, 2 Tim. 2.5. they are taken more with a name to live, with a name of being holy, then they are taken with holiness it self. Rev. 3.1, 2.1 Multi Christianum nomen ad judicium habent, non ad remedium: Many have the name of Christians to their condemnation,2 not to their salvation: They are taken more with the outward shine and pomp of duties then they are taken with the spiritualness and holiness of duties; they are taken more with what of man is in duty, then they are taken with that of God which is in a duty; they are taken more with raised notions, then they are taken with raised affections; they are taken more with some witty, rhetorical expressions in duty, then they are taken with the holy movings and breathings of the spirit in duty,