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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.
thy soul is lost, thy Christ is lost, thy God is lost, thy Crown is lost, thy Heaven is lost, thy glory is lost, and what are all other losses to these losses? Demorrathus (of Corinth) saith, they lost the chiefest part of their lives happiness, that did not see Alexander sit on the throne of Darius, but what was their loss, to that unconceivable and unexpressible loss, that all unholy persons must sustain, who shall never see the King of Kings in his beauty, who shall never behold the Lord on the throne of his glory! Well Sirs, if none of these Arguments can prevail with you to labour after holiness, I must conclude that divine Justice hath hardened you, and that Satan hath blinded you, and that your lusts have besotted you, and that this world hath bewitched you, and that it had been ten thousand thousand times better for you, that you had never been born, then to live without holiness, and to die without holiness, and to be everlastingly damned for want of holiness. And thus much for the Motives.
thy soul is lost, thy Christ is lost, thy God is lost, thy Crown is lost, thy Heaven is lost, thy glory is lost, and what are all other losses to these losses? Demorrathus (of Corinth) saith, they lost the chiefest part of their lives happiness, that did not see Alexander sit on the throne of Darius, but what was their loss, to that unconceivable and unexpressible loss, that all unholy persons must sustain, who shall never see the King of Kings in his beauty, who shall never behold the Lord on the throne of his glory! Well Sirs, if none of these Arguments can prevail with you to labour after holiness, I must conclude that divine Justice hath hardened you, and that Satan hath blinded you, and that your lusts have besotted you, and that this world hath bewitched you, and that it had been ten thousand thousand times better for you, that you had never been born, then to live without holiness, and to die without holinesse, and to be everlastingly damned for want of holinesse. And thus much for the Motives.
I come now to lay down some means and helps to holiness. Supposing that the language of some of your souls may be this: O, what shall we do to be holy! O what course, what way, what means must we use that we may obtain this holiness, without which we now clearly see that we shall never come to a fruition of happiness! Methinks I hear some of you crying out, Oh none but holiness, none but holiness: As that Martyr once cried out, Oh none but Christ, none but Christ: Methinks I hear you crying out, O give me holiness