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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 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.
Gentlemen, if you say you know not these things, and that they are Riddles and Mysteries to you, how dare you say that you are the Ministers of Jesus Christ? But if you shall say that you know very well that these things are ⟨image 26⟩certainly true, yea that they are such clear and undeniable truths, that no Devil can deny, and yet shall continue in your ignorance, insufficiency, profaneness, looseness, superstition, &c. what man on earth is there that hath but read the Scriptures, and that can but write his own name, and that would not be begged for a fool in folio, will believe you to be the true faithful Ministers of Jesus Christ?