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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
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Fourthly, Wicked and unregenerate persons are again and §4•gaine imprecated against, for not calling upon the Lord, Psal. 79.6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. So Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not upon thy name. Now certainly, if prayer were not a duty incumbent upon wicked men, they would never be thus imprecated against for the omission of it; to imprecate that vials, that full vials, that full vials of wrath and fury should be poured forth (as water is poured forth) suddenly and plentifully upon those kingdoms and families, that do not call upon the name of the Lord, is so dreadful a thing, that it had never been mentioned in the Scripture, had it not been to alarm the worst of men to the work of prayer. But,
Fourthly, Wicked and unregenerate persons are againe and §4•gaine imprecated against, for not calling upon the Lord, Psal. 79.6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not knowne thee, and upon the kingdomes that have not called upon thy name. So Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not upon thy name. Now certainly, if prayer were not a duty incumbent upon wicked men, they would never be thus imprecated against for the omission of it; to imprecate that vials, that full vials, that full vials of wrath and fury should be poured forth (as water is poured forth) suddenly and plentifully upon those kingdoms and families, that do not call upon the name of the Lord, is so dreadful a thing, that it had never been mentioned in the Scripture, had it not been to alarme the worst of men to the work of prayer. But,