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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.
He was a Blasphemer, he blasphemed God, and Christ, and his ways and truth; he made a mock and scoff at holiness; he made nothing of blaspheming that God that he should have feared, and of blaspheming that Christ that he should have sweetly embraced; and of blaspheming those Truths that he should have readily entertained. Paul was a great proficient in the School of blasphemy, he made nothing of belching out blasphemy in the very face of heaven. And he was a persecutor too,1 he persecuted holiness to the death; yea he was mad in persecuting the poor Saints and servants of Christ; he did all he could to make their lives a hell, and to rid them out of this world; he thought them not worthy to live, though they were such Worthies of whom this world was not worthy;2 he was a ravening and an untired Woolf that was never weary in worrying Christs little flock, and in sucking out the blood of his Lambs. Yea, and he was an injurious person too, he made no conscience of wronging others,3 or of squaring his carriage by that golden rule, Do to others, as you would have others do to you: This Royal Law, this standard of equity he regarded not; he made nothing of haling men and women to prison, and of compelling them to blaspheme by his cruelty and wicked example; he spared no sex, but practised the highest cruelty upon all that had any thing of sanctity in them; he would ⟨p. 180⟩adventure the torments of hell, rather then not be a tormentor of the Saints here; and the more active any were in holiness, the more injurious was he to them. And yet behold this blasphemer, this persecutor, this injurious person, became a sanctified Christian, an eminent Saint, a pattern of holiness to all Christians in all ages.
He was a Blasphemer, he blasphemed God, and Christ, and his wayes and truth; he made a mock and scoff at holiness; he made nothing of blaspheming that God that he should have feared, and of blaspheming that Christ that he should have sweetly embraced; and of blaspheming those Truths that he should have readily entertained. Paul was a great proficient in the School of blasphemy, he made nothing of belching out blasphemy in the very face of heaven. And he was a persecutor too,