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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.
I will be as the due unto Israel: he shall grow as the Lilly, and cast forth his root as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. The growth, the fruitfulness, and the flourishing estate of the Saints in grace and holiness, is set forth by a seven-fold Metaphor in these words; the Similes are all plain and easy, and you may easily dilate upon them in your own thoughts; and therefore I shall pass them. I shall conclude with that precious promise, John 4.14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The Spirit in its gracious operations shall be a constant spring in believers hearts, and it shall every day rise higher and higher, like the water in Ezekiel, 1till grace be swallowed up in glory. And thus you see by these choice promises, that 'tis possible for you to attain to a greater measure of holiness. But,
I will be as the due unto Israel: he shall grow as the Lilly, and cast forth his root as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shaddow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. The growth, the fruitfulness, and the flourishing estate of the Saints in grace and holiness, is set forth by a seven-fold Metaphor in these words; the Similes are all plain and easie, and you may easily dilate upon them in your own thoughts; and therefore I shall pass them. I shall conclude with that precious promise, John 4.14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The Spirit in its gracious operations shall be a constant spring in believers hearts, and it shall every day rise higher and higher, like the water in Ezekiel, 1