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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.
or that ever such shall be admitted into the kingdom of glory, who are indifferent where ever ⟨p. 81⟩they have any entrance into the kingdom of grace or no. Certainly heaven is too holy to hold any such indifferent, irresolute Neutral souls. In the University not long since there were three Doctors heads of houses; one of them was accounted an Innovator; the second a Puritan; the third a Neuter. A witty Scholar presented them thus to the world; the first in a Coach driving to Rome: the second driving to Geneva: the third running on foot, begging sometimes the one, sometimes the other to receive him, but both refused him. Neuters shall be refused on all hands at last.1 God will refuse them because he loathes halting: Angels will refuse them because they loath halving: Good men will refuse them, because they loath lukewarmness; and bad men will refuse them because they pretend to goodness, though they live in wickedness. Ambo-dexters in Religion are ignominious disgracers both of the name and profession of Christians, they are prodigious traitors to the crown of heaven: they are the greatest enemies to the power of godliness, they are the very offspring of Judas, and in the day of account it will be found that it had been good for them that they had never been born. Neutrality is the spiritual adultery of the heart:2 Neuters are spiritual Harlots, they have their hearts divided between God and Mammon, betwixt Christ and other Lovers. Now Harlots in Ancient time were to be burnt, Gen. 38.24. Certainly hell is for the Neuter, and the neuter for hell: God will be as severe, yea, more severe in punishing spiritual whoredom, then ever men have been in punishing corporal whoredom. God looks upon every neuter as a man in arms against him, Matth. 12.30. He that is not with me, is against me. And therefore Martial Law shall be executed upon them. God will blot out their names, and hang them up as monuments of his justice and vengeance. Sirs, do not deceive your own souls, no man was ever yet carried to glory in the chariot of neutrality or mediocrity: he that is not throughout holy, is not really holy, and he that is not really holy, can never be truly happy: it is only throughout holiness that entitles a