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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.
nor none that set so high a price upon the discoveries of God, as men that are eminent in holiness; nor ⟨p. 502⟩none that are so able to bare the Revelations of his will, as men that are eminent in holiness, nor none that will make such an humble, faithful, constant and through improvement of all that God shall make known to them, as men that are famous for holiness; and therefore as ever you would have God in an eminent way to manifest and discover himself and his mind unto you, O labour after a greater measure of holiness. But,
nor none that set so high a price upon the discoveries of God, as men that are eminent in holiness; nor ⟨p. 502⟩none that are so able to bare the Revelations of his will, as men that are eminent in holiness, nor none that will make such an humble, faithful, constant and through improvement of all that God shall make knowne to them, as men that are famous for holiness; and therefore as ever you would have God in an eminent way to manifest and discover himselfe and his mind unto you, O labour after a greater measure of holiness. But,
Eighthly, To provoke you to labour after higher degrees of holiness, Consider, that the more holy any man is, the more singular delight and pleasure God will take in all his religious duties and services;1 holiness puts a divine savour upon all a mans services; there are no duties so sweet as those that have most holiness in them. Mal. 3.3, 4. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years. After the Lord Jesus Christ hath been to his people as a refiners fire, and as Fullers soap, that is, after he hath refined, scoured, and purged his people from their drossiness, filthiness, earthliness, selfishness, and sensualness, &c. then their offerings shall be pleasant to the Lord. Look as light makes all things pleasant and delightful to man, so holiness makes all a mans duties and services pleasant and delightful to the Lord.