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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.
(mercy may be sure, though it be not presently upon the wing flying towards us) And the same Prophet saith, the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward; 1now this we know comes up last to secure and make good all the rest, for where Grace leads the Front, Glory at last will be in the Rear. Oh do but patiently wait,2 and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry, not a year, not a quarter, not a month, not a week, not a day, no not an hour beyond the prefixed time that he hath set of showing mercy to poor sinners. O how sad was it that Saul should lose his Kingdom for want of two or three hours patience? but O how much more sad will it be if thou shouldst lose all the prayers that thou hast made, and all the Sermons that thou hast heard, and all the tears that thou hast shed, and all other pains that thou hast taken, and all for want of a little more patience? yea how woeful sad would it be if thou shouldst lose thy God, and lose thy Christ, and lose thy soul, and lose an eternity of glory, and all for want of a little patience to wait the Lords leisure? O therefore resolve to hold on waiting to the death, and if thou must perish, to perish in a waiting way, (which if thou shouldst, thou wouldst be the first that ever so perished:) O remember that if God should come, and mercy come, and pardon come, and grace come, when thy Sun is near setting, when thy glass is almost out, and when there is but a short step between thee and eternity, it will infinitely recompense thee for all thy waiting; and therefore wait still: and to keep up thy spirits, and to uphold thy soul in a waiting way, O! that thou wouldest make these following promises thy daily food, thy daily friends, thy daily companions; Psal. 27.14. Wa•t on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. Prov. 20.22. Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. Isa. 30.18. And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, ⟨p. 339⟩