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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.
who trick and trim up their bodies with Gold, Silver and Silks, whilst their souls are naked, and ragged, and destitute of all grace and goodness. The Jews have a story of a foolish woman that took two children to nurse, the one very mean, deformed, crooked, blind, and not likely to live long: the other a goodly, lively, lovely, beautiful child, and likely to live long: now this foolish woman spent all her pains, care, diligence and attendance upon the worst child, never so much as minding ⟨p. 38⟩or regarding the best child: this age is full of such foolish men and women who having two to nurse, their bodies and their souls, spend their time, their care, labour and pains in making provision for the flesh, in laying up for their bodies, and in the mean while never regard their souls, never look after their souls, though they have the beauty of a Deity upon them, and though they are immortal, and capable of union and communion with God in grace, and of a blessed fruition of God in glory. Surely no fools to these fools.
who trick and trim up their bodies with Gold, Silver and Silks, whilst their souls are naked, and ragged, and destitute of all grace and goodness. The Jews have a story of a foolish woman that took two children to nurse, the one very mean, deformed, crooked, blind, and not likely to live long: the other a goodly, lively, lovely, beautifull child, and likely to live long: now this foolish woman spent all her pains, care, diligence and attendance upon the worst child, never so much as minding ⟨p. 38⟩or regarding the best child: this age is full of such foolish men and women who having two to nurse, their bodies and their souls, spend their time, their care, labour and pains in making provision for the flesh, in laying up for their bodies, and in the mean while never regard their souls, never look after their souls, though they have the beauty of a Deity upon them, and though they are immortal, and capable of union and communion with God in grace, and of a blessed fruition of God in glory. Surely no fools to these fools.