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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, 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, Psal. 90.10. And where one man lives to this age, how many thousands die before they come to it? But what is this age to the age that men lived to in former times? Enoch lived as many years as there be days in the year, and Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and Methuselah lived nine hundred sixty and nine years, Gen. 5. Now what were Plato's eighty years, or Thomas Pars 160. years, or Johannes de Temporibus, John of the times, three hundred threescore and one years, to the long lives of the Patriarchs? and though in Davids time old age and seventy often shook hands, yet 'tis otherwise in our times; for as mens wickedness do more and more increase, so their days do more and more decrease; the more wicked any generation is, the shorter lived, that generation shall be; God will quickly dispatch them out of the world, who make quick dispatches in ways of wickedness.