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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.
O man, thou canst not tell but that whilst thou art in the use of Divine helps, a secret power of the Spirit may break in upon thee, and make the means effectual to thy conversion and salvation; many thousands have found it so, and therefore address thy ⟨p. 345⟩self to the use of the means, and wait at the pool, thou canst not tell how soon the Spirit may come and move upon thy soul, it may be this day, this hour, yea this very moment wherein I am thus speaking to thee. But,
O man, thou canst not tell but that whilst thou art in the use of Divine helps, a secret power of the Spirit may break in upon thee, and make the means effectual to thy conversion and salvation; many thousands have found it so, and therefore address thy ⟨p. 345⟩self to the use of the meanes, and waite at the pool, thou canst not tell how soone the Spirit may come and move upon thy soul, it may be this day, this houre, yea this very moment wherein I am thus speaking to thee. But,
Fifthly, I answer, that the sense of thine own inability,1 insufficiency, & impotency, should provoke thee to run to Christ, and to lay hold on his everlasting strength, and to ply the throne of grace, and to give God no rest till he has renewed and sanctified thy soul,2 till he has effectually turned thee from darkness to light, till he has bespangled thy soul with grace, and filled thee with his Spirit,3 and made thee partakers of his holiness. 'Twas a good saying of One (Da quod Jubes, 4