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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.
Ye cursed: there is malediction. But Lord, if we must depart, Oh let us depart blessed; no, depart ye cursed: You have cursed others,1 and now you shall be curst your selves; you have delighted your selves in cursing, and now you shall be curst for ever. You shall be curst in your bodies, and curst in your souls; you shall be curst of God, and curst of Angels, and curst of Saints, and curst of Devils, and curst of your companions, yea, you shall curse your very selves, your very souls. You loved not blessing, and therefore you shall have cursing enough: Depart from me ye cursed: all your curses, all your maledictions shalt at last recoil upon your own souls. Now thou cursest every man and thing that stands in the way of thy lusts, and that crosses thy designs: but at last all the curses of heaven and hell shall meet in their full power and force upon thee.
Ye cursed: there is malediction. But Lord, if we must depart, Oh let us depart blessed; no, depart ye cursed: You have cursed others,1 and now you shall be curst your selves; you have delighted your selves in cursing, and now you shall be curst for ever. You shall be curst in your bodies, and curst in your souls; you shall be curst of God, and curst of Angels, and curst of Saints, and curst of Devils, and curst of your companions, yea, you shall curse your very selves, your very souls. You loved not blessing, and therefore you shall have cursing enough: Depart from me ye cursed: all your curses, all your malidictions shalt at last recoyl upon your own souls. Now thou cursest every man and thing that stands in the way of thy lusts, and that crosses thy designes: but at last all the curses of heaven and hell shall meet in their full power and force upon thee.
- 1Cursings now are their hymns, but in hell they shall be their woes, Rev. 16.9.11.21.