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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.
Fifthly, If absolute promises or precious promises of special §5grace and mercy be made to sinners as sinners, then sinners may in prayer plead out those promises, and urge God upon making good his promises; but absolute promises or promises of special grace and favour are made over to sinners as sinners, ergo, That such promises are made over to poor sinners as sinners, is evident by comparing these Scriptures together, Isa. 57. ⟨p. 332⟩17, 18, 19. These words drop nothing but myrrh and mercy; if Ennius could pick gold out of a dunghill, oh what gold, what comfort may be picked out of these golden promises? In these words, let us consider two things; First, the precious promises that are here made; Secondly, the persons to whom they are made. In the words you have four precious promises of special grace and favour, they are as so many streams of grace flowing from the covenant of grace.
Fifthly, If absolute promises or precious promises of special §5grace and mercy be made to sinners as sinners, then sinners may in prayer plead out those promises, and urge God upon making good his promises; but absolute promises or promises of special grace and favour are made over to sinners as sinners, ergo, That such promises are made over to poor sinners as sinners, is evident by comparing these Scriptures together, Isa. 57. ⟨p. 332⟩17, 18, 19. These words drop nothing but myrrhe and mercy; if Ennius could pick gold out of a dunghil, oh what gold, what comfort may be pick't out of these golden promises? In these words, let us consider two things; First, the precious promises that are here made; Secondly, the persons to whom they are made. In the words you have four precious promises of special grace and favour, they are as so many streames of grace flowing from the covenant of grace.