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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.
Fourthly, This objection lies as strong against wicked mens natural actions, viz. their eating, drinking, and sleeping, &c. as it do's against their praying;1 when a wicked man eats, he is to eat to divine glory, and when he drinks, he is to drink to divine glory, and when he recreates himself, he is to recreate himself to divine glory, and when he sleeps, he is to sleep to divine glory; in all these natural and common actions, he is to make the glory of God his supreme scope. Now there is not a wicked man on earth, that do's or can eat o• drink, &c. to divine glory, he do's not nor cannot set up the glory of God as the chief and ultimate end of his natural and common actions. Now who but fools in folio will reason thus, wicked men are to eat and drink, &c. to divine glory, but this they cannot do, Titus 1.15. and therefore wicked men must neither eat nor drink, &c. But
Fourthly, This objection lyes as strong against wicked mens natural actions, viz. their eating, drinking, and sleeping, &c. as it do's against their praying;1 when a wicked man eats, he is to eate to divine glory, and when he drinks, he is to drinke to divine glory, and when he recreates himselfe, he is to recreate himselfe to divine glory, and when he sleeps, he is to sleep to divine glory; in all these natural and common actions, he is to make the glory of God his supream scope. Now there is not a wicked man on earth, that do's or can eate o• drink, &c. to divine glory, he do's not nor cannot set up the glory of God as the chiefe and ultimate end of his natural and common actions. Now who but fooles in folio will reason thus, wicked men are to eate and drink, &c. to divine glory, but this they cannot doe, Titus 1.15. and therefore wicked men must neither eate nor drink, &c. But