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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.
Fourthly, Such whose Judgements are corrupt and unsound in foundation truths, Titus 3.10. A man that is an heretic, ⟨p. 45⟩after the first and second Admonition reject. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump: and what leaven is more infections then that of heresy and error! 2 John 9, 10. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ […] hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any […] you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him […] in•• your house, neither bid him God speed. You must have nothing to do with them, who have nothing to do with God;1 your house must be too hot to hold him who holds not fast to foundation truths, who holds not close to Christ the head. Eusebius reports of John the Evangelist, that he would not suffer Corinthus the Heretic in the same Bath with him, lest some Judgement should abide them both; He that had the Leprosy in his head, was to be pronounced utterly unclean: the breath of the erroneous is more dangerous and infectious then the breath of Lepers: for one infects but the body, but the other infects the soul, and therefore ought more carefully to be avoided. An erroneous mind is as odious to God as a vicious life; and why should it not be so to us also? Certainly we should shun the society of erroneous persons as we should shun a Serpent in the way, or poison in our meat, 1 Tim. 6.5. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thy self: Or as the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies, stand off, keep at a distance, as you would from one that hath an infectious disease; or as Sea-men stand off from rocks, or from a Lee-shore. It is recorded by Theodoret, that when Lucius an Arian Bishop came and preached amongst the Antiochians his erroneous doctrines, the people went out of the Congregation,2 and would not so much as lend an ear to him. In these days there are many old errors new vamped, and old Jezebels (old harlots) new painted. The best way is not to lend an ear to them,