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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.
The ninth Argument to prove the truth of the Proposition,1 is this God; would not have his holy ones in this world to be yoked in marriage with unholy ones, and therefore certainly he will never suffer such to be yoked to himself to all eternity. That God would not have his righteous people to be yoked in marriage with the unrighteous, is most evident by these Scriptures, Deut. 7.3.6. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy Son: For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Ezra 9.12. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons. But did they keep this commandment of the Lord? No, as you may see in the second verse of that chapter: For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands; yea, the hand of the Princes and Rulers have been chief in this trespass. But how did this operate upon good Ezra! that you may see in the third verse, And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sate down astonied. Oh the sorrow, the grief, the perplexity, the holy passion, the indignation, the amazement, the astonishment that this abomination begot in the heart of good Ezra! The like effect this sin had upon the heart of good Nehemiah, as you may see in that remarkable text, Neh. 13.23, 24, 25. compared with Ch. 10.29, 30. So in 2 Cor. 6.14, 15. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with ⟨p. 57⟩unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? It is an evil thing, a dangerous thing to be yoked to any who have neither skill nor will to bear the yoke of Christ. Under the Law an Ox and an Ass might not be yoked or coupled together,