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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.
First, It may be thou lookest only on the dark side of the cloud, and not on the bright, thou lookest only on thy left hand, where the mourners in Zion stand, but didst thou but cast an eye on thy right hand, there thou wouldst see many of the precious sons and daughters of Zion rejoicing and triumphing;1 Now thus to look, what is it but to look for a straw to thrust out thine own eyes with. O Sirs, 'tis neither wisdom nor righteousness to look only upon those who mourn, and not upon those that rejoice,2 upon those that sigh, but not upon those that sing. Before you pass a judgement upon the people of God, or the good ways of God, look on both hands, I say again, look on both hands, and then you will be sure to see some Saints in their wedding attire, as well as others in their mourning weeds; ⟨p. 353⟩no man in his wits will argue thus, because such and such men of such a Calling or Trade, are in their mourning weeds, therefore all men of that Calling or Trade, are in their mourning weeds, and yet so witless are many men as thus to argue against the people of God, and the ways of God. But,
First, It may be thou lookest only on the dark side of the cloud, and not on the bright, thou lookest only on thy left hand, where the mourners in Zion stand, but didst thou but cast an eye on thy right hand, there thou wouldst see many of the precious sons and daughters of Zion rejoycing and triumphing;1 Now thus to look, what is it but to look for a straw to thrust out thine own eyes with. O Sirs, 'tis neither wisdom nor righteousness to look only upon those who mourn, and not upon those that rejoyce,2 upon those that sigh, but not upon those that sing. Before you pass a judgement upon the people of God, or the good wayes of God, look on both hands, I say againe, look on both hands, and then you will be sure to see some Saints in their wedding attire, as well as others in their mourning weeds; ⟨p. 353⟩