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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.
There was a very great sinner, who in the time of his sickness was so sorely terrified in his conscience for his many heinous sins, that he made the very bed to shake upon which he lay, and cried out all night long, I am damned, I am damned, I am damned, &c. and in this his sickness he made many great protestations of amendment of life, if God would but be pleased to recover him, and prevent his going down to the grave at this time; Well, in a short time after, he did recover, and being recovered he was as base, wretched and wicked, as ever he was before: This man with those that were cited before him, were like that cunning Devil, of whom the Epigrammatist thus writeth; Aegrota Daemon, Monachus tunc esse volebat, Convaluit Daemon, Monachus tunc esse nolebat
There was a very great sinner, who in the time of his sickness was so sorely terrified in his conscience for his many hainous sins, that he made the very bed to shake upon which he lay, and cryed out all night long, I am damn'd, I am damn'd, I am damn'd, &c. and in this his sickness he made many great protestations of amendment of life, if God would but be pleased to recover him, and prevent his going downe to the grave at this time; Well, in a short time after, he did recover, and being recovered he was as base, wretched and wicked, as ever he was before: This man with those that were cited before him, were like that cunning Devill, of whom the Epigrammatist thus writeth; Aegrota Daemon, Monachus tunc esse volebat, Convaluit Daemon, Monachus tunc esse nolebat
Which is thus Englished; The Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he.
Which is thus Englished; The Devill was sick, the Devill a Monk would be; The Devill was well, the Devill a Monk was he.