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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
Dedication: To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the D…
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.
Where vision fails, there men perish totally:1 both the bodies and the souls of men perish, where serious, conscientious preaching fails, Hos. 4.6. My people are destroyed for want of knowledge: The Chaldee rendereth it, they are besotted and so fitted for destruction. The Papist say, that ignorance is the Mother of devotion: but this Text tells us that it is the Mother of destruction. ⟨image 23⟩The Heathens were wont to say, that if their God Jupiter would destroy one, he would first besot him: So these people were first besotted, and then destroyed.
Where vision fails, there the people perish insensibly and unexpectedly: they flatter themselves that God is made up all of mercy, and will not believe but they shall go to heaven, till they awake with everlasting flames about their ears, as you may see in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Where vision fails, there men perish suddenly: In a moment they go down to hell, Job 21.13, 14, 15. As the travail of a woman comes suddenly upon her when she least expects it,1