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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.
Use 2.
Ʋse 2.
The second Use is a Use of Trial and Examination; Is it so, that real holiness is the only way to happiness? must men be holy on earth, or else they shall never come to a blessed vision or fruition of God in Heaven? Oh then, what cause hath every one to try and examine, whether he hath this real holiness without which there is no happiness, or no! Now because this is a point of great importance, and a mistake here may undo a man for ever; and considering the great averseness and backwardness of mens hearts to this ⟨p. 90⟩noble and necessary work, I shall therefore in the first place propose some considerations to provoke all your hearts to fall in good earnest upon this great point of Trial and Examination. Now to this purpose consider,
THe second Use is a Use of Tryal and Examination; Is it so, that real holiness is the only way to happiness? must men be holy on earth, or else they shall never come to a blessed vision or fruition of God in Heaven? Oh then, what cause hath every one to try and examine, whether he hath this real holiness without which there is no happiness, or no! Now because this is a point of great importance, and a mistake here may undo a man for ever; and considering the great aversness and backwardness of mens hearts to this ⟨p. 90⟩noble and necessary work, I shall therefore in the first place propose some considerations to provoke all your hearts to fall in good earnest upon this great point of Tryal and Examination. Now to this purpose consider,