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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 his Majesty hath very Christianly, Zealously, argumentatively, and smartly declared against drunkenness, lewdness, profaneness, &c. and that he hath declared that his resolution is and shall be to promote the power of godliness, to encourage the Exercises of Religion, both public and private, to take care that the Lords day be applied to holy Exercises, without unnecessary divertissements; and that insufficient, negligent and scandalous Ministers be not permitted in the Church?
Do not you know that his Majestie hath very Christianly, Zealously, argumentatively, and smartly declared against drunkennesse, lewdnesse, prophansse, &c. and that he hath declared that his resolution is and shall be to promote the power of godlinesse, to encourage the Exercises of Religion, both publick and private, to take care that the Lords day be applyed to holy Exercises, without unnecessary divertisements; and that insufficient, negligent and scandalous Ministers be not permitted in the Church?
Do not you know that when the great Shepherd our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear,1 that he will call you to a particular and exact account for every soul that hath miscarried under your charge, either by reason of your ignorance, insufficiency, profaneness, looseness, or superstition, &c. and how will you then be able to stand in that day? &c.
Do not you know that when the great Shepherd our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear,1 that he will call you to a particular and exact account for every soul that hath miscarried under your charge, either by reason of your ignorance, insufficiency, prophanesse, loosnesse, or superstition, &c. and how will you then be able to stand in that day? &c.
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