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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
Dedication: To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the D…
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.
Seventhly, As you must do justice and judgement exactly; §7so you must do justice to others, as you would have others do justice to you. For Judges and Justices to do as they would be done by, is the Royal Law, the golden Rule, and the Standard of equity. Judges and Justices should think of others, as they would have others think of them; and speak of others, as they would have others speak of them; and do to others, as they would have others do to ⟨image 15⟩them.1 Whatever by the light of nature, or by the light of conscience, or by the light of Scripture, a Judge, a Justice, would have another do to him, the same must he do to another. In all just things (for so this Law of Christ is only to be understood) we must do to others, as we would have others do to us; as we would have others carry it equally, justly and righteously towards us, so we must carry it equally, justly, and righteously towards others: and as we would not have others to wrong us in our names, estates, rights, liberties, lives, so we must not wrong others in their names, estates, rights, liberties, lives, &c. This Law of Christ is the sum of all righteousness; it is the foundation of all Justice and Equity. Self-love doth so commonly blind the sons of men, that to judge righteously, they must change the person, they must put themselves in others room. All Princes, Judges, Justices, Parents, Masters, Subjects, Servants & Children should so act in their relations, as they would have others act in the correlation. All injustice will be repaid one time or another; and therefore men had need be just, and do to others as they would have others do to them. I have read of a Citizen of Comun in the Dukedom of Ferrara, who being cast into prison upon suspicion of murder, his wife could get no promise of his deliverance, unless she would give the Captain, whose prisoner he was, two hundred Ducats, and yield her body to his pleasure; which, with the consent of her husband, she did; but after the Captain had his desire, he notwithstanding put him to death. The Duke Gonzala hearing of it, commanded the Captain to restore the two hundred Ducats to the widow, with an addition of seven hundred Crowns; then he enjoined him to marry her presently, and lastly, before he could enjoy his new wife, the Duke caused him to be hanged for his ⟨image 15⟩