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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.
Ninthly, If ever you would be holy, then when you have §9done all, wait; Oh hear and wait, and wait and hear; pray and wait, and wait and pray; read and wait, and wait and read; confer and wait, and wait and confer; watch and wait, and wait and watch. Oh sirs, shall the husbandman wait for a good harvest?1 and the Merchant for good returns? and the Watchman for the dawning of the day? and the Patient for a happy cure? and the poor Client for a day of hearing, &c? and will not you wait for Christ, and wait for the spirit, and wait for pardon, and wait for grace, and wait for glory, &c? Oh sinners, sinners, remember you are at the right door, and therefore wait; Oh remember that whilst you are waiting for mercy, God is preparing of mercy; Oh remember that 'tis mercy that you may wait for mercy; devils and damned spirits can't wait for mercy, wait they must, but, O 'tis for more wrath, anger, and fiery indignation: Oh remember your condition bespeaks waiting, for you are poor, halt, lame, blind, and miserable creatures: Oh remember that mercy is sweetest when it comes after a patient waiting, Deut. 32.13. He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; That is, he made him to suck water that was as sweet as honey out of the rock, out of the flinty rock: Oh remember that a patient waiting for mercy, is the only way to greaten your mercy. The longer, said the Emperors son, the Cooks are a preparing the meat, the better the cheer will be; his meaning was, the longer he staid for the Empire, the greater it would be: So the longer a soul waits for mercy, the greater and the better it will be when it comes; as you may see in that famous instance of the poor man that lay eight and thirty years at the Pool of Bethesda. 2Famous was the patience of Elijah's servant,3 who in obedience to his Masters command, went seven several times up and down steep Carmel, which could not be without danger and difficulty, and ⟨p. 338⟩all to bring news of nothing, till his last journey, which made a recompense for all the rest, with the tidings of a cloud arising: Oh so do but patiently wait upon the Lord, and that grace, that favour, that mercy will come at last, which will fully recompense you for all your waitings; remember that the mercies of God are not styled the swift,