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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.
They rob him of the glory of his goodness and mercy, as if there were any sins too great for him to pardon; or any mercy too great for him to give, or any wrath too great for him to divert, or any debt too great for him to satisfy. They rob him of the glory of his omnipotency and all-sufficiency, as if there were something too hard for a God; now what communion can the people of God have with Robbers? with the greatest Robbers, with the worst of Robbers; and yet such are all unbelievers. And therefore let no unbelievers mutter or murmur when the door §2of admission is shut against them. But,
They rob him of the glory of his goodness and mercy, as if there were any sins too great for him to pardon; or any mercy too great for him to give, or any wrath too great for him to divert, or any debt too great for him to satisfie. They rob him of the glory of his omnipotency and alsufficiency, as if there were something too hard for a God; now what communion can the people of God have with Robbers? with the greatest Robbers, with the worst of Robbers; and yet such are all unbelievers. And therefore let no unbelievers mutter or murmur when the door §2of admission is shut against them. But,
Secondly, Such as have a form, a picture, a mask,1 a §3visor of godliness, but deny the power, 2 Tim. 3.5.
Secondly, Such as have a form, a picture, a mask,1 a §3vizzard of godliness, but deny the power,