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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.
God himself scorns the scorner, Prov. 3.34. Surely he scorneth the scorner, &c. of all men in the world God casts the greatest contempt and scorn upon scorners, and therefore why should we make such our bosom Associates? And thus you see the several sorts of persons that God hath shut out from the communion of his people: Well Christians, remember this, dead stones must not be laid in a living Temple: No stones but hewen stones were to be brought and laid in the building of Solomons Temple,1 which was a Type of the Church of Christ in Gospel days: Certainly such stones, such souls as are not hewen by the word and spirit, are not fit to be laid in Christs building. In Josiahs days when the Passover was kept, there were Porters at every gate of Jerusalem, that no unclean or uncircumcised ones might enter. And the English Annotations on Rev. 21.27. do say, that in the last Church on earth, discipline in likelihood shall be so strictly executed, that no profane person shall be found there, only elect persons so far as men can Judge. That vain persons are to be shut out from sacred communion with the people of God, is further evident by the Judgement of many approved Authors. As,
God himself scorns the scorner, Prov. 3.34. Surely he scorneth the scorner, &c. of all men in the world God casts the greatest contempt and scorn upon scorners, and therefore why should we make such our bosome Associates? And thus you see the several sorts of persons that God hath shut out from the communion of his people: Well Christians, remember this, dead stones must not be laid in a living Temple: No stones but hewen stones were to be brought and laid in the building of Solomons Temple,1 which was a Type of the Church of Christ in Gospel dayes: Certainly such stones, such souls as are not hewen by the word and spirit, are not fit to be laid in Christs building. In Josiahs dayes when the Passeover was kept, there were Porters at every gate of Jerusalem, that no unclean or uncircumcised ones might enter. And the English Annotations on