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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.
First, That there is nothing more certain then death: That Statute Law of heaven, Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return, Gen. 3.19. will take hold of all the sons of men: There is no man that lives and shall not see death. 1Though Jacob wrestled with an Angel and prevailed, yet death was too hard for him; though Hazael was as light of foot as a wild Roe, yet he could not out-run death,2 and Absalom could not out-ride it, nor Pharaoh out-drive it; though Saul and Jonathan were as swift as Eagles, and as strong as Lyons, yet were they slain among the mighty: 'Twas not Solomons wisdom that could deliver him, nor Samsons strength that could rescue him, nor Hamans honour that could secure him, nor Goliaths sword that ⟨p. 291⟩could defend him, nor Dives riches that could ransom him from the grave; and therefore why should men put this day so far from them? But,
First, That there is nothing more certain then death: That Statute Law of heaven, Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return, Gen. 3.19. will take hold of all the sons of men: There is no man that lives and shall not see death. 1Though Jacob wrestled with an Angel and prevailed, yet death was too hard for him; though Hazael was as light of foot as a wild Roe, yet he could not out-run death,2 and Absalom could not out-ride it, nor Pharoah out-drive it; though Saul and Jonathan were as swift as Eagles, and as strong as Lyons, yet were they slain among the mighty: 'Twas not Solomons wisdom that could deliver him, nor Sampsons strength that could rescue him, nor Hamans honor that could secure him, nor Goliahs sword that ⟨p. 291⟩could defend him, nor Dives riches that could ransom him from the grave; and therefore why should men put this day so far from them? But,