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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.
most have walked cross to God, and cross to one another, and God has walked as cross to them; you have crossed the commands of God, and the truths of God, and the ways of God, and the works of God, and the designs of God; and God has crossed you in your hopes, desires, prayers, and endeavours, and God gave you warning of this before hand by a Fish, by a miracle, to provide for the cross, but you would not, and therefore 'tis that the cross lies so heavy upon you this day. When Mr. Bradford was told that his chain was a buying, and that he must be burnt, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, I thank God for it, I have looked for this along time, it comes not to me suddenly, but as a thing waited for every day, yea every hour in the day, the Lord make me worthy thereof. If upon Gods warning you will but prepare for sufferings, you will never fear nor faint under sufferings, yea then you will be able under the greatest persecutions to bare up bravely, and with holy Bradford bless the Lord that has called you to so high an honour, as to count you worthy to suffer for his name. But,
most have walked cross to God, and cross to one another, and God has walked as cross to them; you have cross't the commands of God, and the truths of God, and the ways of God, and the works of God, and the designs of God; and God has cros't you in your hopes, desires, prayers, and endeavors, and God gave you warning of this before hand by a Fish, by a miracle, to provide for the cross, but you would not, and therefore 'tis that the cross lies so heavy upon you this day. When Mr. Bradford was told that his chain was a buying, and that he must be burnt, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, I thank God for it, I have looked for this along time, it comes not to me suddenly, but as a thing waited for every day, yea every hour in the day, the Lord make me worthy thereof. If upon Gods warning you will but prepare for sufferings, you will never fear nor faint under sufferings, yea then you will be able under the greatest persecutions to bare up bravely, and with holy Bradford bless the Lord that has called you to so high an honor, as to count you worthy to suffer for his name. But,