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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.
Secondly, If you consider the life of man comparatively §1'tis but short, and that will appear briefly thus;
First, If you compare the life of man to what man might §2have reached to, had, he continued in his primitive glory; had man stood fast in innocency he had never known what death and misery had meant; death is a fall that came in by a fall; had man kept sin out of the world, he had kept death out of the world; had man kept fast his holiness and purity, he had remained a piece of immortality to this day; death could never have carried man out of the world, had not man first let sin into the world, Rom. 5.12. ult.
First, If you compare the life of man to what man might §2have reach't to, had, he continued in his primitive glory; had man stood fast in innocency he had never known what death and misery had mean't; death is a fall that came in by a fall; had man kept sin out of the world, he had kept death out of the world; had man kept fast his holiness and purity, he had remained a piece of immortality to this day; death could never have carried man out of the world, had not man first let sin into the world, Rom. 5.12. ult.
Secondly, If you compare the life of man, to the long lives of the Patriarchs before the stood, then the life of man is but short; threescore years and ten is mans age,