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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.
For the first, I shall propound these following considerations to provoke all unsanctified persons to look after holiness.
First, Consider the necessity of holiness: It is impossible that ever you should be happy, except you are holy. ⟨p. 171⟩No holiness here, no happiness hereafter. The Scripture speaks of three bodily inhabitants of heaven: Enoch before the Law; Elijah under the Law; and Jesus Christ under the Gospel; all three eminent in holiness, to teach us, that even in an ordinary course there is no going to heaven without holiness. There are many thousand thousands now in heaven, but not one unholy one among them all: There is not one sinner among all those Saints; not one Goat among all those Sheep; not one weed among all those flowers; not one thorn or prickle among all those Roses, not one Pebble among all those glistering Diamonds: There is not one Cain among all those Abels: nor one Ishmael among all those Isaacs; nor one Esau among all those Jacobs in heaven:1 there is not one Seth among all the Patriarchs: not one Saul among all the Prophets: nor one Judas among all the Apostles; nor one Demas among all the Preachers: nor one Simon Magus among all the professors. Heaven is only for the holy man, and the holy man is only for heaven: Heaven is a garment of glory, that is only suited to him that is holy. God who is truth it self, and cannot lie, hath said it, that without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Mark that word, no man; without holiness the rich man shall not see the Lord: nor without holiness the poor man shall not see the Lord; Without holiness the Noble man shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the mean man shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the Prince shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the Peasant shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the Ruler shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the Ruled shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the learned man shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the ignorant man shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the husband shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the wife shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the Father shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the child shall not see the Lord. Without holiness the Master shall not see the Lord; nor without holiness the servant shall not see the Lord. For faithful and strong is the Lord of hosts