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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 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 so everlasting pains and torments come suddenly upon poor sinners when they least expect them. 1 Thess. 5.3. As God rained hell out of heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah on a sudden:2 and as he swept away the Old world on a sudden: and as Samuel cut-off Agag on a sudden, when he concluded that the bitterness of death was past: so God casts sinners to hell on a sudden, he sweeps them away on a sudden, he cuts them off on a sudden; and when they say Surely the bitterness of death is past, and everlasting wrath is past, and hell is past, and eternal ruin is past, then on a sudden God cuts them off, and gives them their portion with Devils and damned Spirits, &c.
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 so everlasting pains and torments come suddenly upon poor sinners when they least expect them.