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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.
It is observable amongst the worst of men, the Turks, yea amongst the worst of Turks, the Moors, that by their Law it is a just exception against any witness, that he hath not prayed six times every natural day, it being a usual custom with them to pray for day before the day brake, and when 'tis day they give thanks for day light, and at noon they give thanks to God that half the day is past, and then at last they pray that they may have a good night after their day: Ah sinners, sinners, shall not these Turks rise up one day in Judgement against you that think not holiness worth a praying for.
It is observable amongst the worst of men, the Turks, yea amongst the worst of Turks, the Moores, that by their Law it is a just exception against any witness, that he hath not prayed six times every natural day, it being a usual custome with them to pray for day before the day brake, and when 'tis day they give thanks for day light, and at noone they give thanks to God that halfe the day is past, and then at last they pray that they may have a good night after their day: Ah sinners, sinners, shall not these Turks rise up one day in Judgement against you that thinke not holiness worth a praying for.
Object. But the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, Pro. 15.8. Chap. 28.9. and he casts their sacrifices as dung in their faces, Isa. 1.11.—16. Ch. 58.1.—7. their very prayers are sinful, and therefore they were better neglect prayer till God shall work graciously and savingly upon them, then to pray, and so to sin as often as they pray, &c. To this I answer.
Object. But the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, Pro. 15.8. Chap. 28.9. and he casts their sacrifices as dung in their faces,