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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.
Eighthly, Where there is real holiness, there will be the §8exercise of righteousness towards men from righteous principles, and upon religious accounts, viz. the honour of God, the command of God, the will of God, the credit of the Gospel, &c. Real holiness towards God, is always attended with righteousness towards men. Eph. 4.24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, or, holiness of truth. Titus 2.11, 12. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men. Teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godlily in this present world. These words contain the sum of a Christians duty, to live soberly towards our selves, righteously towards our neighbours, and godlily towards God,1 is true godliness indeed, and the whole duty of man. So holy Abraham in Gen. 23.16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currant money with the Merchant. It is recorded to holy Abraham's everlasting honour and fame, that he paid for the field that he bought of Ephron currant money not counterfeit, pure not adulterate, shekels of silver, not shekels of brass silvered over; he paid the price that was pitched, and he paid it in such coin as would go currant in one Country as well as another. So holy Jacob in Gen. 43. supposing that the money that was returned in the sacks of corn that his sons brought out of Egypt, was through some mistake or oversight, he very honestly and conscientiously ordered them to carry the money back again. Ver. 12. And take double money in your hand: and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hands; peradventure it was an oversight. A holy heart will not, a holy heart dares not take an advantage from another's error to do him wrong; it is but justice to return and restore to every man his due. So holy Moses in