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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.
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 Hab. 1.12. Art not thou from everlasting, O Lord my God, my holy one? Among holy ones, none to the holy One: Yea the more holy any are, the more deeply are they affected and taken with the holiness of God: as you may see in Isaiah 6.3. And one cried unto another (or this cried to this) and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. The holy Seraphims by trebling the acclamation of his holiness, Holy, holy, holy, do denote not only the superlative eminency, glory and excellency of Gods holiness, but also they do discover how greatly, how abundantly they are affected and taken with the holiness of God. To the holy Angels, the holiness of God is the sparkling diamond in the ring of glory: But now unholy persons are rather affected and taken with any thing then with the holiness of God: The carnal secure sinner is affected and taken with the patience, forbearance and long-suffering of God: O, saith he, ⟨p. 103⟩