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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.
If this Treatise should fall into the hands of any of Gods sanctified ones, of what degree or rank soever they are of, as I suppose it may fall into the hands of many such, I would then say, Dear friends, In this Treatise you will find many strong Motives to provoke you to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord, and many special Means to enable you to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord, and many evidences whereby you may certainly and infallibly know whether you have attained to any considerable height of holiness, or no; and in the opening of these things, you will find that great Doctrine about degrees of Glory in Heaven to be Asserted and Proved, and the Objections against it to be fairly dismissed, &c.
If this Treatise should fall into the hands of any of Gods sanctified ones, of what degree or rank soever they are of, as I suppose it may fall into the hands of many such, I would then say, Dear friends, In this Treatise you will find many strong Motives to provoke you to perfect holinesse in the fear of the Lord, and many special Means to enable you to perfect holinesse in the fear of the Lord, and many evidences whereby you may certainly and infallibly know whether you have attained to any considerable highth of holinesse, or no; and in the opening of these things, you will find that great Doctrine about degrees of Glory in Heaven to be Asserted and Proved, and the Objections against it to be fairly dismissed, &c.
Reader, If thou art one that to this very day art in an unsanctified estate, and an enemy to holiness, or a scoffer at holiness, or a a secret despiser of holiness, or a desperate opposer of holiness, or a bitter persecutor of holiness, then I would commend this following Treatise (before any ⟨image 29⟩I know extant in the world) to the service of thy soul, for I know none that is so calculated and fitted up for that purpose as this is. Read and judge. This I will assure thee, O thou unsanctified soul, that the grand design of this book is thy salvation; it is to make thee really holy, that thou mayest be eternally happy; and of this thou mayest be confident, viz. that I shall follow these poor labours with my earnest prayers that they may be blessed to the internal and eternal welfare of thy soul, and that they may issue in the conviction, conversion, and salvation of thy soul. I shall send this Treatise forth into the world with Jacobs blessing and prayer for his sons,