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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 ninth sort of persons that Christians must have no intimate, §9no sacred, no special communion with, are fools, Prov. 9.6. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Chap. 14.7. Go from the presence of a foolish man, 1when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. Chap. 23.9. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. There is no profit, no pleasure, no delight to be had in the society of fools. Fools are neither capable of doing good, nor of receiving good: and therefore what should good souls do among such! A fool hath neither an ear to hear, nor an eye to see, nor a heart to understand, nor a memory to retain, nor a will to choose, nor affections to embrace any thing that is good. And therefore their company is to be shunned and avoided. The society of fools is as dangerous as it is vexations. Proverbs 13.20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. The Hebrew word (Jeroange) that is here used, signifies to be broken: yea, to be broken as sometimes an Army is broken by some fierce and sudden surprisal; a companion of fools shall be broken in his credit, in his estate, in his name, in his reputation; yea, in his very wits, for nothing contributes so much to make a man a fool as the company of fools.
A ninth sort of persons that Christians must have no intimate, §9no sacred, no special communion with, are fools, Prov. 9.6. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. Chap. 14.7. Go from the presence of a foolish man, 1when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. Chap. 23.9. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. There is no profit, no pleasure, no delight to be had in the society of fools. Fools are neither capable of doing good, nor of receiving good: and therefore what should good souls do among such! A fool hath neither an ear to hear, nor an eye to see, nor a heart to understand, nor a memory to retain, nor a will to chuse, nor affections to embrace any thing that is good. And therefore their company is to be shunned and avoided. The society of fools is as dangerous as it is vexations.