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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.
now the Naturalist observes concerning this Royal Bird, that whereas all other Birds make a noise when they are hungry, this Princely Bird makes no noise at all, though he be never so hungry, for such is the greatness, and the nobleness of his spirit, that what ever befalls him, he won't cry, and whine, and repine as other Birds will do when they want their food; his Princely spirit carries him above all hunger, thirst, or danger: So men that are eminent in holiness, are men of such noble princely spirits, that they won't faint, nor vex, nor fret, nor complain, nor whine, whatever their wants, trials, or straits may be; such afflictions as would break other mens hearts, cannot so much as break their sleep, they still hold on their way, & whatever they meet with, they will be still amounting nearer and nearer to heaven. But now where there is but a little holiness, there men will be like ⟨p. 473⟩the common fowls of the air, still a making a noise, they will still be a crying, whining, and repining under every trial and trouble they meet with. But,
now the Naturalist observes concerning this Royal Bird, that whereas all other Birds make a noise when they are hungry, this Princely Bird makes no noise at all, though he be never so hungry, for such is the greatness, and the nobleness of his spirit, that what ever befalls him, he won't cry, and whine, and repine as other Birds will doe when they want their food; his Princely spirit carries him above all hunger, thirst, or danger: So men that are eminent in holiness, are men of such noble princely spirits, that they won't faint, nor vex, nor fret, nor complaine, nor whine, whatever their wants, tryals, or straits may be; such afflictions as would break other mens hearts, cannot so much as break their sleep, they still hold on their way, & whatever they meet with, they will be still amounting nearer and nearer to heaven. But now where there is but a little holiness, there men will be like ⟨p. 473⟩the common fowls of the air, still a making a noise, they will still be a crying, whining, and repining under every trial and trouble they meet with. But,