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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.
1. A holy heart mourns for sin as sin, he weeps over §1the very nature of sin; he grieves for sin, as it is the ⟨p. 142⟩breach of a holy Law,1 and as it is a dishonour to a holy God, &c. and therefore he cannot but mourn for other mens sins, as well as his own. He that hates a Toad as a Toad, will hate a Toad in other mens bosoms as well as his own. He that hates poison as poison, will hate poison in another mans hand as well as his own: So he that hates sin as sin, will hate it where-ever he sees it. And he that mourns over sin as sin, cannot but mourn over sin wherever he observes it.
1. A holy heart mourns for sin as sin, he weeps over §1the very nature of sin; he grieves for sin, as it is the ⟨p. 142⟩breach of a holy Law,1 and as it is a dishonour to a holy God, &c. and therefore he cannot but mourn for other mens sins, as well as his own. He that hates a Toad as a Toad, will hate a Toad in other mens bosoms as well as his own. He that hates poison as poison, will hate poison in another mans hand as well as his own: So he that hates sin as sin, will hate it where-ever he sees it. And he that mourns over sin as sin, cannot but mourn over sin whereever he observes it.
- 1He that hates a Thief as a Thief, will hate a Thief in another mans house, as well as in his own.
2. By other mens sins a holy man is put in mind of the badness of his own heart. Bernard makes mention in one of his Homilies of an old man, who when he saw any man sin, wept and lamented for him, and being asked why he grieved so for other mens sins, answered, Ille hodie, & ego cras, he fell to day, and I may fall to morrow: the falls of others puts a holy man in mind of the roots of bitterness that be in himself: other mens actual sins are as so many glasses through which a holy man comes to see the manifold seeds of sin that be in his own nature, and such a sight as this cannot but melt him, and break him.