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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.
Ninthly, He that is truly holy, will labour and endeavour to make others holy; a holy heart loves not to go to heaven alone, it loves not to be happy and blessed alone; a man that hath experienced the power, excellency and sweetness of holiness, will strive and study how to make others holy. When Sampson had tasted honey,1 he gave his father and mother some with him. Holiness is so sweet a morsel, that a soul cannot taste of it,2 but he will be a commending of it ⟨p. 133⟩to others. As you may see in holy Moses, in Numb. 11.29. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? 3would God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them. A holy soul will never make a monopoly of holiness; the Prophets you know were men of greatest grace and holiness; now holy Moses is very importunate and earnest with God, that he would not only make the two that prophesied, but all the Lords people eminent and excellent in grace and holiness; such was Moses his holiness and humbleness, that he desires that all others might either equal him, or excel him in gifts and grace.4 A heart eminently holy, is so far from envying of the gracious excellencies of others, that it can rejoice in every Sun that out-shines his own: and every light that burns more dim then his, he desires that it may be snuffed, (not put out) that so it may give a clearer and a greater light to others. So holy Paul in Acts 26.29. And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bands. True holiness is no Churl: nothing makes a man more noble in his spiritual desires, wishes, and actings for others, then holiness. Real holiness, like oil, is of a diffusive nature; like light, it will spread it self over all, like Mary's box of ointment, it fills all the house with the sweet scent thereof. Art thou a holy Father, then thou wilt with holy Abraham, labour to make thy children holy.