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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.
In the Bohemian persecution,1 John Campan having forsaken his Religion, said to his wife, this day is salvation come to our house, whereunto she answered, this day a curse is brought into our house, and so it proved, for he ended his life in despair.
- 1The famous Poet.
Those Apostates that left Galeacius, to enjoy their sinful pleasures and delights, &c. were taken by the bloody inquisition, and forced publicly to recant and abjure their Religion, and when they had done it, they became the subjects of misery and infamy, and were equally odious to both parties.
Those Apostates that left Galeacius, to enjoy their sinful pleasures and delights, &c. were taken by the bloody inquisition, and forced publikely to recant and abjure their Religion, and when they had done it, they became the subjects of misery and infamy, and were equally odious to both parties.
Christ seems to say to all that refuse to suffer for him, as King Rehoboam said to the Ten Tribes (the order of the words being only inverted) My little finger shall be thicker then your persecutors loins, and I will add to your yoke, 1and whereas they would have chastised you but with whips, I will chastise you with Scorpions. O my friends, 'tis ten thousand times worse to be given up to a proud heart, a hard heart, a worldly heart, a formal heart, an hypocritical heart, a persecuting heart, an impenitent heart, or a despairing heart, &c. for this is to be whipped with Scorpions, then 'tis to be given up to prisons, or Racks, or