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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.
It was a worthy saying of Bilson an approved Author, Suppose any man (saith he) be he a Prince,1 if he will not submit himself to the precepts of Christ, but wilfully maintain either heresy or open impurity, the Ministers are to admonish him what danger from God is at the door; and if he impenitently persist, they must not suffer him to communicate either in divine prayer, or any holy mysteries among the people of God; but wholly to be excluded the Congregation. Again, not only the lack of the word and Sacraments (saith the same Author) but the abuse of either greatly hazards the weal of the whole Church: yea, casting holy things to dogs, &c. procures a dreadful doom as well to consenters as presumers, it being the way to turn the house of God into a den of Thieves, if profane ones be allowed to defile the mysteries and Assemblies of the faithful.
It was a worthy saying of Bilson an approved Author, Suppose any man (saith he) be he a Prince,1 if he will not submit himself to the precepts of Christ, but wilfully maintain either heresie or open impurity, the Ministers are to admonish him what danger from God is at the door; and if he impenitently persist, they must not suffer him to communicate either in divine prayer, or any holy mysteries among the people of God; but wholly to be excluded the Congregation. Again, not only the lack of the word and Sacraments (saith the same Author) but the abuse of either greatly hazards the weale of the whole Church: yea, casting holy things to dogs, &c. procures a dreadfull doom as well to consenters as presumers, it being the way to turn the house of God into a den of Theives, if prophane ones be allowed to defile the mysteries and Assemblies of the faithfull.
- 1Bilsons Christian Subject. par. 3. pag. 63. 64, 74, &c. 52.