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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.
I come now to the Reasons of the Point, Why is it that Without holiness there is no happiness; that without holiness on earth, no man shall ever come to a blessed vision or fruition of God in heaven. Among other Reasons that might be rendered, you may please to take these.
Reason 1 First, Because God hath said it, who is truth and faithfulness it self, and cannot lye. That he hath said it, witness the very Text and the proofs that are produced to make good the doctrine: and hath he said it, and shall it not come to pass? Hath he spoken it, and will he not accomplish the word that is gone out of his mouth?1 God is not a man that he should lye, Numb. 23, 19. Also the strength of Israel will not lye, 1 Sam. 15.29. God will make good every word that is gone out of his mouth: Men sometimes eat their words as soon as they have spoken them; they often say and unsay, but so will not the holy One of Israel; that first and supreme being, that gives being to all others, will certainly give being to all his promises and threatenings. God himself shall sooner cease to be, then the word that is gone out of his mouth shall be frustrated. He that is the faithful witness hath said it, that without holiness no man shall see the Lord. And verily, heaven and earth shall pass away before one jot or one tittle (that is, before the least letter or particle of a letter) of Gods blessed word shall pass unfulfilled. 2Gods faithfulness is great. Lam. 3.23. It reaches unto the clouds, Psalm 36.5. He will not suffer his faithfulness to fail, Psalm 89.33. His faithfulness endures through all Generations,