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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.
Justin Martyr 1who was about the year after Christ 150. he lived not above thirty years after St. John, he in his Apology (to Antoninus the Emperor) for Christians, writes thus, In our Assemblies we admit none to the Lords Supper, but such as being baptized continue in professing the true faith, and in leading such lives as Christ hath taught. There were three things, saith this Author, that were required of them that were to be received to the Sacrament, A New Birth; 2. Soundness in Faith; 3. A promise to live well.
Justin Martyr 1who was about the year after Christ 150. he lived not above thirty years after St. John, he in his Apology (to Antoninus the Emperour) for Christians, writes thus, In our Assemblies we admit none to the Lords Supper, but such as being baptized continue in professing the true faith, and in leading such lives as Christ hath taught. There were three things, saith this Author, that were required of them that were to be received to the Sacrament, A New Birth; 2. Soundness in Faith; 3. A promise to live well.
- 1Justin Martyr.
Austin 1well observes, That as many think the eating of an Apple was but a small sin; So many think that the eating of the Sacrament is but a small sin: But as many horrid sins were wrapped up in that, so are there many wrapped up in this: 1. Here is pride; else no man in his wickedness would presume to come to the Lords Table 2. Here is Rebellion and Treason against the Crown and dignity of Christ,2 their hands and lips adore him (as Judas his did) but their hearts and lives abhor him. 3. Here is Theft, and Sacrilege; now if to take away the Communion cup be such a high offence,