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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.
Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you. Holy things are too precious to be spent and spilt upon swinish sinners. Gospel administrations are precious pearls that must not be given to swine, 2 Cor. 6.17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. Profane, scandalous, ⟨p. 42⟩blind and ignorant persons are very unclean things, and from them we must come out; as we would be in with God, we must be out with them: we must reject them as we would have God to receive us, 2 Tim. 3.5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away. Our Saviour Christ hied him to the wilderness amongst the beasts, and carried his Disciples with him, holding their fellowship to be less hurtful and dangerous: It is better to live among beasts, then to live among men of beastly principles and beastly practises. Now there are ten sorts of persons that Christians must turn from, that they must have no intimate, no special communion with in this world:
Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you. Holy things are too precious to be spent and spilt upon swinish sinners. Gospel administrations are pretious pearls that must not be given to swine, 2 Cor. 6.17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. Prophane, scandalous, ⟨p. 42⟩blind and ignorant persons are very unclean things, and from them we must come out; as we would be in with God, we must be out with them: we must reject them as we would have God to receive us, 2 Tim. 3.5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away. Our Saviour Christ hied him to the wilderness amongst the beasts, and carried his Disciples with him, holding their fellowship to be less hurtfull and dangerous: It is better to live among beasts, then to live among men of beastly principles and beastly practises. Now there are ten sorts of persons that Christians must turn from, that they must have no intimate, no special communion with in this world: