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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.
Some of the Rabbis observe that Moses surpassed all the other Prophets, not only in sublimity of Prophesies, but also in excellency and number of miracles; for Moses within one Age wrought seventy six miracles, when all the rest of the Prophets from the beginning of the world quite down to the ruin of the first Temple, wrought only seventy four: And as for those words, whom the Lord knew face to face, you are not to understand them thus, that God hath a face as man hath, nor that Moses had a view of the essence of God, which is invisible;1 for in this sense no man hath seen God at any time; and indeed the least beam of Gods essential glory and Majesty would have swallowed up Moses alive. But these words, whom the Lord knew face to face, are to be understood of Gods speaking to Moses in a free friendly familiar and plain manner; God ⟨image 257⟩did speak to Moses by a clear articulate voice, even as one man speaks to another when they speak face to face. And so when Aaron and Miriam were swelled with pride and envy, and began to bespatter Moses, and to pick a hole in his Coat, and to cloud, eclipse, and diminish his glory, see at what a high and noble rate God speaks of Moses, see how God magnifies and exalts and lifts up Moses in that 12 Num. 6, 7, 8. And he said, hear now my words; if there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house; with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: Wherefore then were ye not-afraid to speak against my servant Moses? Now here you see how God owns Moses, and stands up for Moses, and pleads for Moses, and tells Aaron and Miriam to their faces, that Moses was the greatest favourite, and that he had far greater respects for Moses then he had for them, and that there was not a man in all the world that was so inward with him as Moses, and that had so much of his ear and heart as Moses had. God did appear to o•her Prophets in Dreams and visions, which were transient, but with Moses God will speak mouth to mouth, God will speak to him without an interpreter, he will speak to Moses more familiarly and frequently then he did to others by visions, and more clearly, plainly, and assuredly, then he did to others by dreams: