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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.
Fourthly, It will appear that persecutors are in the most sad and deplorable condition, if you do but consider that there is a day a coming wherein God will fully reckon with all persecutors for their persecuting of his Saints: Psal. 9.12. When he maketh inquisition for blood, 1he remembereth them; he forgetteth not the cry of the humble: There is a time when God will make inquisition for innocent blood; the Hebrew word Dor•sh from Darash, that is here rendered inquisition, signifies not barely to seek, to search, but to seek, search, and enquire with all diligence and care imaginable. O there is a time a coming, when the Lord will make a very diligent and careful search and enquiry after all the innocent blood of his afflicted and persecuted people, which persecutors and Tyrants have spilt as water upon the ground; and woe to persecutors when God shall make a more strict critical and careful enquiry after the blood of his people, then ever was made in the inquisition of Spain, where all things are carried with the greatest diligence, subtlety, secrecy, and severity. O persecutors, there is a time a coming, when God will make a strict enquiry after the blood of Hooper, Bradford, Latimer, Taylor, Ridley, &c. There is a time a coming, wherein God will enquire who silenced and suspended such and such Ministers, and who stopped the mouths ⟨p. 387⟩of such and such, and who imprisoned, confined, and banished such and such, who were once burning and shining lights, and who were willing to spend and be spent, that sinners might be saved, and that Christ might be glorified. There is a time when the Lord will make a very narrow enquiry into all the actions and practises of Ecclesiastical Courts, High Commissions, Committees, Assizes, Sessions, &c. and deal with persecutors as they have dealt with his people. Psal. 12.5. For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, (saith the Lord) I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. When oppressors and persecutors do snuff and puff at the people of God, when they defy them, and scorn them, and think that they can with a blast of their breath blow them away, then God will arise to judgement, as the Chaldee has it;