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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.
Thirdly, Consider, That those that now reproach holiness, will ere long be of another mind, they that now revile and reproach holiness, will in a short time change their minds and their notes; when these very men who revile holiness shall come to fall under terrors and horrors of conscience, and when they shall come to lye upon their dying beds, and to have their immortal souls sit trembling and quaking upon their pale lips, and when they shall appear before the great God,1 and awake with everlasting flames about their ears; O, how will they then wish that they had never reviled holiness! How will they then wish that they had prized holiness, and that they had spent their All in pursuing after holiness! O how will they then charge themselves, and censure themselves, and arraign, and condemn themselves for their scorning and condemning ⟨p. 461⟩of holiness! O how will they then wish that they had never heard of holiness, nor read of holiness, nor thought of holiness! O how will they then wish that their mothers wombs had proved their Tombs, and that they had rather lived and died in a land of darkness, then thus to live and dye without holiness! Now, O what folly and madness is it for thee to neglect the pursuit of holiness, because such and such revile it, who perhaps before the next year, the next month, yea it may be the next Sabbath comes about, will wish ten thousand times over and over, that they had pursued after it, and that they had made it their greatest work in this world to obtain it? But,
Thirdly, Consider, That those that now reproach holiness, will ere long be of another minde, they that now revile and reproach holiness, will in a short time change their minds and their notes; when these very men who revile holiness shall come to fall under terrors and horrors of conscience, and when they shall come to lye upon their dying beds, and to have their immortal souls sit trembling and quaking upon their pale lips, and when they shall appear before the great God,1 and awake with everlasting flames about their ears; O, how will they then wish that they had never reviled holiness! How will they then wish that they had prized holiness, and that they had spent their All in pursuing after holiness! O how will they then charge themselves, and censure themselves, and arraign, and condemn themselves for their scorning and condemning