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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.
Secondly, and more particularly, Is it so that real holiness §2is the only way to happiness: and that without holiness here no man shall ever come to a blessed vision or fruition of God hereafter? Then this may serve to convince several sorts of persons of their woeful and miserable conditions. As,
Secondly, and more particularly, Is it so that real holiness §2is the only way to happiness: and that without holiness here no man shall ever come to a blessed vision or fruition of God hereafter? Then this may serve to convince several sorts of persons of their wofull and miserable conditions. As,
First, All profane persons who give up themselves to wickedness,1 who wallow in all ungodliness, and delight themselves in all manner of filthiness, who commit wickedness with greediness; who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope; who weary themselves to commit iniquity; who are so desperately set upon wickedness, that neither the rod of God, the lashes and checks of their own consciences, nor the flashes of hell upon their souls can reduce them, who are resolved that they will gratify their lusts, though they damn their souls; and who will live wickedly, though they perish eternally: Who by custom in sin, have destroyed all conscience of sin, and contracted such desperate hardness upon their own hearts, as neither smiles nor frowns, promises, nor threatenings, life nor death, heaven nor hell, ministry nor misery, miracle nor mercy can possibly mollify them; these are grown from naught, to be very naught; from very naught, to be stark naught; these souls are sadly left of God, and woefully blinded by Satan, and fully ripened for ruin. Now if without holiness no man shall see the Lord, what will become of all profane wretches, who are so far from being holy, that they fall short of common honesty? Certainly God will shut the gates of glory upon such workers of iniquity. Such profane Esaus shall never be blest with a sight of God in glory.