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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
Dedication: To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the D…
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A fourth Reason why I thus Dedicate this Treatise as you see, is, because my former poor labours and endeavours have been acceptable to some of all ranks and degrees, and they have been blest to some of all ranks ⟨image 5⟩and degrees; and I have been encouraged, whetted and stirred up by some on all hands, once more to cast in my Net, and now I have done it; O that it may issue in the drawing of many souls to Christ, and in the making of the graceless gracious, the profane holy, and in the making of those that are holy, to be yet more holy, &c.
A fourth Reason why I thus Dedicate this Treatise as you see, is, because my former poor labours and endeavours have been acceptable to some of all ranks and degrees, and they have been blest to some of all ranks ⟨image 5⟩and degrees; and I have been encouraged, whetted and stirred up by some on all hands, once more to cast in my Net, and now I have done it; O that it may issue in the drawing of many souls to Christ, and in the making of the gracelesse gracious, the prophane holy, and in the making of those that are holy, to be yet more holy, &c.
A fifth Reason why I thus Dedicate this Treatise as §5you see, is, because though all men are bound to be holy, yet the great, the rich, the noble, and the honourable of the earth, are bound above all other men in the world to be holy.1 God hath laid upon them greater obligations and Ties to holiness, then he hath upon any other men under heaven; and this you may see so clearly and so fully proved in this Book, (from page 433. to page 447.) that neither the world nor the Devil, as cunning and as learned a Devil as he is, will ever be able to disprove. This reason alone is sufficient to justify my present practice.