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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
Dedication: To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the D…
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.
Now having premised thus much in the general, give me leave to tell you, that there are eight special Rules that you are carefully and faithfully to observe in the administration of Justice and Righteousness. And how you will be able to act suitable to those Rules without a Spirit of holiness, without principles of holiness, and without an experience of the powerful influences and operations of holiness in your own souls, I cannot for the present understand.
Now having premised thus much in the general, give me leave to tell you, that there are eight special Rules that you are carefully and faithfully to observe in the administration of Justice and Righteousnsse. And how you will be able to act sutable to those Rules without a Spirit of holinesse, without principles of holinesse, and without an experience of the powerful influences and operations of holinesse in your own souls, I cannot for the present understand.
Now my Lords and Gentlemen, the first Rule that you are to observe in your administering of Judgement and Justice,1 is this, You must do Justice impartially: you are called Gods, and in this you must be like to God, who is no ⟨image 7⟩acceptor of persons:2 he accepts not the rich man because of his Robes, neither doth he reject the poor man because of his Rags. Deut. 1.17. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement, but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, 3for the judgement is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. And so in