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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.
She is dead God-wards, and dead Christ-wards, and dead Duty-wards, & dead Heaven-wards, and dead Holiness-wards, &c. Aristotle writes of a parcel of ground in Sicily, that sends forth such a strong, such a sweet smell of fragrant flowers, that no Hounds can hunt there; so the carnal pleasures of this world do send forth so strong a scent, that unsanctified persons cannot hunt after God, nor Christ, nor holiness, nor the great concernments of another world, and therefore 'tis rather mans felicity then his misery to be taken off from such vain pleasures: sensual pleasures and delights cannot satisfy the soul of man, they are but frothy and flashy, they only wet the mouth, they never warm the heart; a man may sooner break his neck, then satisfy his heart with sensual pleasures; they are Juno's in the pursuit, and but clouds in the enjoyment. Xerxes being weary of his sensual pleasures, promised great rewards to them that should invent new pleasures; and when they had invented new pleasures and delights, ⟨p. 361⟩yet then he could not be satisfied nor contented, he would fain have had one pleasure to have taken off the weariness of another, but it could not be; there is nothing in carnal delights but imagination and expectation, for they can neither fill the heart nor satisfy the heart.
She is dead God-wards, and dead Christ-wards, and dead Duty-wards, & dead Heaven-wards, and dead Holiness-wards, &c. Aristotle writes of a parcel of ground in Sicily, that sends forth such a strong, such a sweet smell of fragrant flowers, that no Hounds can hunt there; so the carnal pleasures of this world doe send forth so strong a scent, that unsanctified persons cannot hunt after God, nor Christ, nor holiness, nor the great concernments of another world, and therefore 'tis rather mans felicity then his misery to be taken off from such vaine pleasures: sensual pleasures and delights cannot satisfie the soul of man, they are but frothy and flashy, they only wet the mouth, they never warme the heart; a man may sooner break his neck, then satisfie his heart with sensual pleasures; they are Juno's in the pursuit, and but clouds in the enjoyment. Xerxes being weary of his sensual pleasures, promised great rewards to them that should invent new pleasures; and when they had invented new pleasures and delights, ⟨p. 361⟩yet then he could not be satisfied nor contented, he would fain have had one pleasure to have taken off the weariness of another, but it could not be; there is nothing in carnal delights but imagination and expectation, for they can neither fill the heart nor satisfie the heart.