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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 when thou goest to bed,1 I will follow thee with terrifying and affrighting dreams: Now what joy can be in such a mans heart?2 what gladness can be in such a mans face? surely none. I remember a saying of Luther (una guttula malae conscientiae totum mare mundam gaudii absorbet) one drop of an evil conscience, swallows up the whole Sea of worldly joy. O 'tis better with Enagrius to lye secure on a bed of Straw, then to lye with a guilty conscience on a bed of Down, having the Curtains Embroidered with Gold, and the Fringes bespangled with Pearls. Sin brings such a stain, and such a sting with it, as spoils all a mans joys and delights. And if this be the present case of a Christian (as it may) then never wonder to see him hang down his head, and to walk mournfully before his God.
and when thou goest to bed,1 I will follow thee with terrifying and affrighting dreams: Now what joy can be in such a mans heart?2 what gladness can be in such a mans face? surely none. I remember a saying of Luther (una guttula malae conscientiae totum mare mundam gaudii absorbet) one drop of an evil conscience, swallows up the whole Sea of worldly joy. O 'tis better with Enagrius to lye secure on a bed of Straw, then to lye with a guilty conscience on a bed of Doun, having the Curtains Imbroidered with Gold, and the Fringes bespangled with Pearls. Sin brings such a stain, and such a sting with it, as spoils all a mans joys and delights. And if this be the present case of a Christian (as it may) then never wonder to see him hange down his head, and to walk mournfully before his God.
- 1Job 7.14.
- 2'Twas guilt that made that despairing Pope say, That the Cross could do him no good, he had so often sold it.