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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.
Such as mind more (saith another) the humouring of their hearers fancies, then the saving of their souls, do little consider that of Seneca, (Aeger non quaerit medicum eloquentem sed sanantem) Sick men are not bettered by Physicians sugared words, but by their skilful hands. Doctor Sibbs was wont to say, That great affectation and good affection seldom go together. Truth is like Solomons Spouse, all glorious within; she is most beautiful when most naked, as Adam was in innocency. The King of Persia having sent to Antalcidas the Lacedaemonian Captain a Garland of Roses wonderfully perfumed with Spices and other sophistications, he accepted of his love, but misliked the present, and sent him word, (Rosarum odorem artis adulteration perdidisti) Thou hast marred the sweetness of the Roses with the sweetness of thy perfumes. So many mar the sweetness of the Word by perfuming it with their humane eloquence ⟨p. 164⟩and oratory. For a close, remember, that God himself the great Master of speech, when he spake from heaven, he made use of three several Texts in a breath, Matth. 17.5. This is my beloved son. Psalm 2.7. In whom I am well pleased. Isaiah 42.1. Hear ye him. Deut. 18.15. which you may note against the curious queasiness of such nice ones §3as disdain at the stately plainness of the Scriptures. But,
Such as mind more (saith another) the humouring of their hearers fancies, then the saving of their souls, do little consider that of Seneca, (Aeger non quaerit medicum eloquentem sed sanantem) Sick men are not bettered by Physitians sugared words, but by their skilful hands. Doctor Sibbs was wont to say, That great affectation and good affection seldom go together. Truth is like Solomons Spouse, all glorious within; she is most beautiful when most naked, as Adam was in innocency. The King of Persia having sent to Antalcidas the Lacedemonian Captain a Garland of Roses wonderfully perfumed with Spices and other sophistications, he accepted of his love, but misliked the present, and sent him word, (Rosarum odorem artis adulteratione perdidisti) Thou hast marred the sweetness of the Roses with the sweetness of thy perfumes. So many marr the sweetness of the Word by perfuming it with their humane eloquence