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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.
Again, a man bewitched with the world, will prefer the most base and contemptible things before the Lord Jesus Christ, he will with the Gergesens, prefer his very Swine before a Saviour;1 when they saw what a sad market their Hogs were brought to, they desired Christ to depart out of their country; these Gergesites had rather loose Christ, then loose their Porkets; they had rather that the devil should possess their souls, then that he should drown their Pigs; they prefer their Swine before their salvation, and present a wretched petition for their own damnation; they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts, though there be no misery, no plague, no curse, no wrath, no hell to Christs departure from a people, yet men bewitched with the world will desire this. Men bewitched with ⟨p. 282⟩the world will prefer a Barabbas before a Jesus, they will with Judas betray Christ, and with Pilate condemn Christ, and with the Scribes and Pharisees they will cry out, Crucify him, Crucify him, away with this Jesus, away with this Jesus, let Barabbas live, but let Jesus dye, let Barabbas be saved, but let Christ be hanged. Ah what incarnate Devils will such men prove who are bewitched with this world?
Again, a man bewitch't with the world, will prefer the most base and contemptible things before the Lord Jesus Christ, he will with the Gergesens, prefer his very Swine before a Saviour;1 when they saw what a sad market their Hoggs were brought to, they desired Christ to depart out of their country; these Gergesites had rather loose Christ, then loose their Porkets; they had rather that the devil should possess their souls, then that he should drown their Pigs; they prefer their Swine before their salvation, and present a wretched petition for their own damnation; they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts, though there be no misery, no plague, no curse, no wrath, no hell to Christs departure from a people, yet men bewitched with the world will desire this. Men bewitched with ⟨p. 282⟩the world will prefer a Barabbas before a Jesus, they will with Judas betray Christ, and with Pilate condemn Christ, and with the Scribes and Pharisees they will cry out, Crucifie him, Crucifie him, away with this Jesus, away with this Jesus, let Barabbas live, but let Jesus dye, let Barabbas be saved, but let Christ be hanged. Ah what incarnate Devils will such men prove who are bewitched with this world?