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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.
these are factors for hell, and certainly such solicitors shall at last be most dreadfully handled by hellish tormentors. But,
Tenthly, He that is really holy, will be holy in the use of earthly and common things, as well as in the use of spiritual and heavenly things.1 He will be spiritual in the use of carnal things, and heavenly in the use of earthly things. There is a silver vein of sanctity that runs through all his worldly concernments. If you look upon him in his eating and drinking; you shall find him holy, 1 Cor. 10.31. If you look upon him in his buying and selling, in his paying and receiving, you shall find him holy, Isa. 23.18. And her Merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord. Before Tyres conversion she laboured to enrich her self by hook and by crook: all was fish that came to Tyres net. Tyre could say any thing, or do any thing, or be any thing for gain. Oh, but when Tyre is converted and sanctified, then all her merchandise and hire, then all her gettings and earnings shall be holiness to the Lord. Tyre now shall write holiness upon all her wares and commodities: Tyre shall buy nothing, nor sell nothing, nor exchange nothing, but there shall be holiness written upon it. And Tyre shall be as well holy in using and improving of her merchandise and hire, as she hath been holy in the getting of them; for so it follows in the same verse, It shall not be treasured nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. Tyre before her conversion horded up riches; and laid up her merchandise to spend upon her lusts; to spend upon her pride, and wantonness, and luxuriousness, &c. But now being converted she uses and improves what she hath in the Service of the Lord, and for the comfort, support and relief of the poor and needy. When Tyre is once made holy,2