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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.
A seventh Argument to prove that without real holiness there is no happiness; that without holiness on earth no man shall ever come to a blessed vision or fruition of God in heaven, is this. Unholy persons are to be excluded and shut out from sacred, from special communion and fellowship with the Saints in this world; and therefore without all peradventure they shall never be admitted to everlasting communion and fellowship with God, Christ, Angels and Saints in that other world. That they are to be shut out from having any special communion with the Saints here, is most plain, and evident from several Scriptures: ⟨p. 41⟩take these for a taste, Lev. 10.10.1 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean, Ezek. 44.23. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And because the Priests did not improve their power and interest to preserve the things of God from profaning and polluting, the Lord was very much offended and provoked. Ezek. 22.26. Her Priests have violated my Law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. And in Chap. 44.7, 8. God sadly complains that they brought into his Sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh: and prohibits such from entering into his Sanctuary, ver. 9. Thus saith the Lord God, No stranger uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my Sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. God expects that faithful teachers should put a difference between person and person, between the holy and profane, between the clean and the unclean in all holy administrations. Jerem. 15.19. Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou take forth the precious from the vile, then thou shalt be as my mouth; let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them. Now certainly if under the Ceremonial Law natural uncleanness did exclude and shut out the Israelites from a participation in holy things, then certainly moral uncleanness may justly exclude and shut out Christians from a participation in holy things under the Gospel,