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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.
and they are able to tell you from what they have found, that there is no fear, no terror, no horror, no gripes, no grief, no stings, no hells to those that attend the ways of ungodliness; and this were enough to blow off this objection. But,
and they are able to tell you from what they have found, that there is no feare, no terror, no horror, no gripes, no grief, no stings, no hells to those that attend the wayes of ungodliness; and this were enough to blow off this objection. But,
Fourthly, I answer, that the joy of the Saints is chiefly and §4mainly an inward joy, a spiritual joy, a joy that lies remote from a carnal eye; the joy of a Christian lies deep, it cannot be expressed, it cannot be painted; look as no man can paint the sweetness of the Honey-comb, nor the sweetness of a Cluster of Grapes, nor the fragrancy of the Rose of Sharon; so no man can paint out the sweetness and spiritualness of a Christians joy, it lies so deep and low in a gracious heart; and look as the life of a Christian is hid with Christ in God, 1so the joy of a Christian is hid with Christ in God; as their life is a hidden life, so their joy is a hidden joy; the joy of a Christian is hidden Manna, 'tis the new name and white stone, 2that none knoweth but he that has it. Pro. 14.10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy: The joy of a Saint is a Jewel that falls not under a strangers eye. Look as the greatest terrors and torments of the wicked are inward, so the greatest joys and comforts of the Saints are inward; and look as the heart of man is deep,3 so holy joy is a treasure that lies deep, and 'tis not every man that has a golden key to search into this Treasury. As a man standing on the Seashore, sees a great heap of waters, one wave riding upon the back of another, and making a dreadful noise, but all this while though he sees the water rolling, and hears it raging and roaring, yet he sees not the wealth, the gold, the silver, the Jewels, and incredible Treasures that lye buried there; so wicked men they see the wants of the Saints, but not their wealth, they see their poverty, but not their riches, their miseries, but not their mercies, their conflicts, but not their comforts, their sorrows, but not their joys: