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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.
To all the Lords, Knights, Ladies, Gentry, Ministers and Commons of England, (and the Dominions thereunto belonging) that have but the least desire, the least mind, or the least will to escape hell, and to go to heaven, or to be happy in both worlds, &c.
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, &c.
The Philosophers speaking of happiness, were divided into two hundred eighty eight opinions, every one intending something, yet resolving upon nothing; and therefore the man in Plutarch hearing them wrangle about (summum bonum) the chiefest good, one placing of it in this, and another in that, went to the Market and bought up all that was good, hoping that among all he should not miss of happiness, and yet he mist it; true happiness being too great and too glorious a thing to be found in any thing below real holiness.
THe Philosophers speaking of happiness, were divided into two hundred eighty eight opinions, every one intending something, yet resolving upon nothing; and therefore the man in Plutarch hearing them wrangle about (summum bonum) the chiefest good, one placing of it in this, and another in that, went to the Market and bought up all that was good, hoping that among all he should not miss of happiness, and yet he mist it; true happiness being too great and too glorious a thing to be found in any thing below real holiness.