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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.
6. A holy heart looks upon sinners sins to contribute §6very much towards the bringing in of sore and sad changes upon a Land and Nation:1 he knows that sinners sins may turn Rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground, and a fruitful land into a barren wilderness: he knows that sinners sins may have a deep hand in provoking God to rain hell out of heaven upon a sinful Nation, ⟨p. 144⟩as he did of old upon Sodom and Gomorrah, 2and this sets him a mourning; if one sinner destroys much good, as Solomon speaks, Ah, saith he, what a world of good will a world of sinners destroy then! the serious thoughts of this makes him sigh.
6. A holy heart looks upon sinners sins to contribute §6very much towards the bringing in of sore and sad changes upon a Land and Nation:1 he knows that sinners sins may turn Rivers into a wildernesse, and water-springs into dry ground, and a fruitfull land into a barren wildernesse: he knows that sinners sins may have a deep hand in provoking God to rain hell out of heaven upon a sinfull Nation, ⟨p. 144⟩as he did of old upon Sodom and Gomorrah, 2and this sets him a mourning; if one sinner destroys much good, as Solomon speaks, Ah, saith he, what a world of good will a world of sinners destroy then! the serious thoughts of this makes him sigh.