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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 his life a Christian may behold the lively picture or lineaments of all virtues, and accordingly he ought to order his conversation in this world: To walk as Christ walked, is to walk humbly, holily, justly, righteously, meekly, lowly, lovingly, fruitfully, faithfully,1 uprightly, with an As of quality or similitude, but no• with an As of equality; for that is impossible for any Saint on earth to walk so purely, so holily, so blamelessly,2 so unspottedly, so spiritually, so heavenly as Christ walked; that is, with an as of equality. To walk as Christ walked, is to slight the world, and contemn the world, and make a footstool of the world, and to live above the world, and to triumph over the world as Christ did; that is,3 with an As of quality, but not with an As of equality: To walk as Christ walked, is to love them that hate us, to pray for them that persecute us, to bless them that curse us, and to do good to them that do evil to us; but still with an As of similitude, but not with an As of equality: To walk as Christ walked, is to be patient, and silent, and submissive, and thankful under the vilest reproaches, the heaviest afflictions, and the greatest sufferings, with an As of quality, but not with an As of equality. Now a holy heart that is taken with the holiness of the Word, he is certainly taken most with those parts of the Word that do most call for holiness, and that ⟨p. 152⟩do most strongly press the soul to make a progress in holiness. I have given you a taste of some of the most principal Scriptures that do incite most to holiness, and I shall leave it to your own consciences to give in witness for you, or against you, according to what you find in your own spirits. Certainly to a holy man, there are no Prayers, no Sermons, no Discourses, no Conferences, no books, nor no parts of Scripture, to those that do most encourage and provoke to holiness. But,
in his life a Christian may behold the lively picture or lineaments of all vertues, and accordingly he ought to order his conversation in this world: To walk as Christ walked, is to walk humbly, holily, justly, righteously, meekly, lowly, lovingly, fruitfully, faithfully,