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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.
in this love-letter there is so much to be read of the love of Christ, the heart of Christ, the kindness of Christ, the grace of Christ, and the glory of Christ, that a holy heart cannot but be affected and taken with it. The whole word of God is a field, and Christ is the treasure that is hid in that field; it is a ring of gold, and Christ is the pearl in that ring, and therefore a holy heart cannot but be taken with the whole Word of God. Luther was wont to say, that he would not take all the world for one leaf of the Bible. And Rabbi Chija in the Jerusalem Talmud says, that in his account all the world is not of equal value with one word out of the Law.
in this love-letter there is so much to be read of the love of Christ, the heart of Christ, the kindness of Christ, the grace of Christ, and the glory of Christ, that a holy heart cannot but be affected and taken with it. The whole word of God is a field, and Christ is the treasure that is hid in that field; it is a ring of gold, and Christ is the pearl in that ring, and therefore a holy heart cannot but be taken with the whole Word of God. Luther was wont to say, that he would not take all the world for one leaf of the Bible. And Rabbie Chija in the Jerusalem Talmud says, that in his account all the world is not of equal value with one word out of the Law.
Thirdly, A man that is affected and taken with the word as it is a holy word, he is always affected and taken with it; he loves it and takes pleasure in it, as well in adversity as in prosperity. Psalm 119.59. Thy Statutes have been my songs (I but where we) in the house of my pilgrimage, or pilgrimages, 1as the Hebrew hath it. When David was in his banishments by reason of Saul, Absalom, and others, now the Word of God was music to him, now it was matter of joy and rejoicing to him, his whole life was the life of a Pilgrim and Stranger; now as a Pilgrim he sojourns here, and anon as a Stranger he sojourns there; no man could take more pleasure, joy and contentment in the rarest and choicest music, then David did in the Word of God, and that not only when he was in his royal Palace, but also when he was in the house of his Pilgrimage; he that loves the Word, and that delights in the Word for its holiness and purity,