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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.
Thomas Arundell Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, was a grievous persecutor of the people of God, and a great suspender and silencer of good Ministers; he made use of his tongue, brains, and power to stop the mouths, and tie up the tongues of Gods faithful Ministers; but God in his righteous Judgement so struck him in his tongue, that it swelled so big, that he could neither swallow nor speak for some days before his death, and so he was starved, choked, and killed by this strange tumour of his tongue.1 I have read of one Mr. W. who was very busy in prosecuting an Indictment against his Minister at a Quarter Sessions, for omitting the Cross in Baptism; and being a man in high favour with the Justices, he made no question of prevailing; at night (according to his usual manner) he falls to drinking, till he was so extreme drunk that he was fain to be carried home; in the morning his wife began mildly to blame him for his acting against the Minister the day before, at which he with fearful oaths swore, that he would soon rid the Town of that Puritan; but behold the hand of God, for as this wretched man was about to rise, and having put one arm in his Doublet (even as the oaths were uttering) he was taken speechless, yea and senseless, and so dyed. To conclude, the Judgements of God ⟨p. 386⟩upon the persecutors of the Saints in Bohemia was such, that it was used as a Proverb among the adversaries themselves, that if any man were weary of his life, let him but attempt against the Piccardines (for so they called the Saints) and he should not live a year to an end. And thus you see by these instances, that most severe Judgements have still followed the persecutors of the people of God: Let me close up this argument thus; look as in Princes Courts they are judged but silly shallow, brained men, that profess open and mortal hatred to the greatest favourites of the King, because in so doing they take the right and ready way to ruin themselves and families; so they are doubtless the most silly shallow-brained men in the world (how wise soever they may be in their own eyes, or in others eyes who are like unto themselves) who persecute the favourites of the King of Kings, that being the ready way to their own ruin and destruction. But,
Thomas Arundell Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, was a grievous persecutor of the people of God, and a great suspender and silencer of good Ministers; he made use of his tongue, braines, and power to stop the mouthes, and tye up the tongues of Gods faithfull Ministers; but God in his righteous Judgement so struck him in his tongue, that it swel'd so big, that he could neither swallow nor speak for some dayes before his death, and so he was starved, choked, and killed by this strange tumour of his tongue.