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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.
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.
But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment; such who now out-live their vows, shall when they dye have hell enough. You count it a very shameful thing to break promise or covenant with men, but is it not far more shameful to break with God? The Egyptians (though Heathens) so hated perjury, that if any man did but swear by the life of the King, and did not perform his oath, that man was to dye, and no gold was to redeem his life.1 When the Romans made Covenants, they took Stones in their hands and said, If I make this Covenant seriously and faithfully, then let the great Jupiter bless me, if not, so let me be cast away from the face of the gods as I cast away this Stone. Covenant-breaking was a sin greatly detested and abhorred among the very Heathens, and shall Christians make nothing of breaking their vows, promises, and covenants with the great God. Well Sirs, remember this, those sins that you have vowed against, must be deserted, and that holiness which you have vowed to ⟨p. 312⟩follow, must be pursued, or a worse thing then the curse of Meroz must be expected, Judg. 5.23. compared with that, Joh. 5.14. But
But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment; such who now out-live their vows, shall when they dye have hell enough. You count it a very shamefull thing to break promise or covenant with men, but is it not farre more shamefull to break with God? The Egyptians (though Heathens) so hated perjury, that if any man did but swear by the life of the King, and did not performe his oath, that man was to dye, and no gold was to redeeme his life.