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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.
But me thinks I hear some of you saying, O Sir, how shall we do to know whether we have this real holiness or no? ⟨p. 102⟩we see it is our very great concernment to know whether God hath sown this heavenly seed in our souls, or no: but how shall we come to know this? Now to this I answer, there are several ways whereby this may be discovered. As,
But me thinks I hear some of you saying, O Sir, how shall we do to know whether we have this real holiness or no? ⟨p. 102⟩we see it is our very great concernment to know whether God hath sown this heavenly seed in our souls, or no: but how shall we come to know this? Now to this I answer, there are several wayes whereby this may be discovered. As,
First, a person of real holiness is much affected and taken up in the admiration of the holiness of God: Unholy persons may be somewhat affected and taken with other of the excellencies of God; but it is only holy souls that are affected and taken with the holiness of God. Exod. 15.11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the Gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? In this stately description of God, holy Moses is most taken up in magnifying and admiring the holiness of God: Holiness is that glory of the Creator, that holy ones most delight to glory in.1 So holy David, Psalm 71.22. Unto thee will I sing with the Harp, O thou holy one of Israel: So Isa. 12.6. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee. The inhabitants of Zion must shout and hollow out (as the Hebrew word carries it) in token of joy, because he that is great and in the midst of them, is the holy one of Israel. So