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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.
But Sixthly, Some may further object and say, Should we §6pursue after holiness, it would be a disgrace, a disparagement and dishonour to us, who are high, and great, and rich, and honourable in the earth: We are Gentlemen, we are well bred and high-borne, and holiness seems to be too poor and too low a thing for such as we are to look after, &c.
But Sixthly, Some may further object and say, Should we §6pursue after holiness, it would be a disgrace, a disparagement and dishonour to us, who are high, and great, and rich, and honorable in the earth: We are Gentlemen, we are well bred and high-borne, and holiness seemes to be too poor and too low a thing for such as we are to look after, &c.
Now to fence and arm you against this objection, give me leave to propose to your most serious thoughts, these following Considerations, &c.
Now to fence and arme you against this objection, give me leave to propose to your most serious thoughts, these following Considerations, &c.
First, That holiness is mans greatest honour and excellency, §1and this I have made evident at large in the third motive to holiness, yea holiness is the crown, excellency,1 and glory of all a mans excellencies and glories, as has been fully proved in the fifth motive to holiness, yea and that which is yet more, holiness reflects honour not only upon a mans own person, but it reflects honour also upon a mans near and dear relations, yea upon the very Country, City, or Town, where he was borne, as is made good at large in the sixth motive to holiness, to which I refer you for more full and complete satisfaction to this objection. But,