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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.
Death is the holy mans Jubilee, it is his greatest advantage, it puts him into a better estate then ever he had before. It is Gods Gentleman Usher to conduct us to heaven; it will ⟨p. 213⟩blow the bud of grace into the flower of glory. O!1 who would not go through hell to heaven! who would not go through a temporary death to an eternal life! who would not willingly march through mortality to immortality and glory! O Sirs, holiness will make you look upon death as a welcome guest, a happy friend, a joyful messenger: it will make you kiss it and embrace it, as Favinus the Italian Martyr kissed and embraced his executioner: it will make you desire it, & long after it with tears, as holy Bradford did. By all this you see, that holiness will deliver you from death in death; and therefore I shall close up this head, as that wise (& witty) man Sr. Francis Bacon closed up a paper of verses, What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born, to die?
Death is the holy mans Jubilee, it is his greatest advantage, it puts him into a better estate then ever he had before. It is Gods Gentleman Usher to conduct us to heaven; it will ⟨p. 213⟩blow the bud of grace into the flower of glory. O!1 who would not go through hell to heaven! who would not go through a temporary death to an eternal life! who would not willingly march through mortality to immortality and glory! O Sirs, holinesse will make you look upon death as a welcome guest, a happy friend, a joyfull messenger: it will make you kisse it and embrace it, as Favinus the Italian Martyr kissed and embraced his executioner: it will make you desire it, & long after it with tears, as holy Bradford did. By all this you see, that holiness will deliver you from death in death; and therefore I shall close up this head, as that wise (& witty) man Sr. Francis Bakon closed up a paper of verses, What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born, to die?
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