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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.
Do not you know that God will require the blood of all their souls at your hands, that perish either by your insufficiency, or neglect, or bad examples! Ezek. 3.18, 19, 20. Thou shalt surely die; Moth Tamuth, in dying thou shalt die; that is, thou shalt certainly die, thou shalt eternally die, The Ancients commonly interpret it of the death of the soul.
Do not you know that God will require the blood of all their souls at your hands, that perish either by your insufficiency, or neglect, or bad examples! Ezek. 3.18, 19, 20. Thou shalt surely die; Moth Tamuth, in dying thou shalt die; that is, thou shalt certainly die, thou shalt eternally die, The Antients commonly interpret it of the death of the soul.
Do not you know that a man were better have the blood of all the men in the world upon him, then the blood of one soul upon him? For there is no blood that cries so loud, that will lie so heavy, and that will sink a man so deep in hell, as the blood of souls. I say as the blood of souls.
Do not you know that there are no men upon the face of the earth, that are by office so strictly, so strongly, so universally, so indispensably, and so signally engaged to prize holiness, to countenance holiness, to encourage holiness, to promote holiness, and to practise holiness, as the Ministers of Jesus Christ are? Do not you know that Ministers are called Angels in respect of their offices?1 now Angels are spiritual creatures, their communion is spiritual, their food is spiritual, their delights are spiritual, their minds are spiritual, their affections are spiritual, and their exercises are spiritual; and in all these respects