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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.
and why then shouldst thou be startled in thy pursuit after holiness, because of afflictions and persecutions that may attend thee? when they are nothing to what many suffer from within and without, to enjoy that which will undo them to all eternity, &c. But,
and why then shouldst thou be startled in thy pursuit after holiness, because of afflictions and persecutions that may attend thee? when they are nothing to what many suffer from within and without, to enjoy that which will undoe them to all eternity, &c. But,
Eleventhly, I answer, Though persecutions may attend the pursuit of holiness, yet God has a thousand thousand ways to preserve his people from being ruined and destroyed by persecuting hands.1 Several afflictions and persecutions befell Paul, at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, but out of them all the Lord delivered him: As a righteous cause led him into sufferings, so a righteous God led him out of sufferings; both Jews and Gentiles, Barbarians and Grecians, Princes and people, were as madly set upon persecuting of him, as he was once madly set upon persecuting of the Saints, but God delivered him from every hand of violence; divine power and wisdom wrought gloriously for him, both in six troubles and in seven it brought him clearly off, and bravely out, not of some, but out of all his dangers and distresses, afflictions and persecutions, &c.
Eleventhly, I answer, Though persecutions may attend the pursuit of holiness, yet God has a thousand thousand wayes to preserve his people from being ruined and destroyed by perseting hands.1 Severall afflictions and persecutions befell Paul, at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, but out of them all the Lord delivered him: As a righteous cause led him into sufferings, so a righteous God led him out of sufferings; both Jews and Gentiles, Barbarians and Grecians, Princes and people, were as madly set upon persecuting of him, as he was once madly set upon persecuting of the Saints, but God delivered him from every hand of violence; divine power and wisdom wrought gloriously for him, both in six troubles and in seven it brought him clearly off, and bravely out, not of some, but out of all his dangers and distresses, afflictions and persecutions, &c.