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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
Dedication: To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the D…
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.
Thirdly, In all your administrations of justice, take the Authority of the Word with you: this will yield you most comfort, most peace, most security, and most boldness, in the great day of your account. But,
Thirdly, In all your administrations of justice, take the Authority of the Word with you: this will yield you most comfort, most peace, most security, and most boldnesse, in the great day of your account. But,
Fourthly, Never put off your own souls with any such pleas or arguments now, that are not pleadable in the Court of conscience, when you shall lie upon your dying-beds; ⟨image 18⟩nor that are not pleadable before the Court of heaven, when you shall stand before Christs Judgement-feat. But,
Fifthly and lastly, In all your administrations of justice §5and judgement, be sure that you act nothing upon the account of any command, commission, or authority under heaven, that you dare not own, plead and stand by before the great authority of heaven, when the King of Kings shall make a narrow inspection into all your Judicial proceedings, and accordingly pass judgement upon you. What though this command, and that commission, and the other authority may bear you out in this world, yet if they are too weak to bear you out in the other world, you will curse the day that ever you were born, and wish that you had rather been a turning of spits, or lying under an hedge, or a begging at the rich mans door, then that you had ever sate in seats of Judicature, to act upon such grounds, as are no ways pleadable before the Lord Jesus Christ, when he shall come in the glory of his father, with all his holy Angels, to judge all the Kings, Princes, Nobles, Judges and Justices of the earth. My Lords and Gentlemen, if these five things or Rules were but sincerely, seriously, resolutely, and constantly followed, no heart can conceive, nor no tongue can express the heinous sins, the sore troubles, and the dreadful calamities, and woeful miseries that thereby would be prevented. And thus my Lords and Gentlemen, I have done with those special Rules that you are carefully, diligently, faithfully, and constantly to observe, in all your Judicial administrations; but how you will be able to act suitable and answerable to these Rules without a spirit of holiness, without a principle of holiness, and without an experiment of the powerful operations of holiness in your own souls, I am