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A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse…
A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favourable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favorable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
Fourthly, the Crown of life signifies a lasting Crown, a living Crown, to say the Crown of life is to say a living Crown, and living Crowns are only to be found in 1Heaven. The word, Crown, notes the perpetuity of glory. A Crown is round, and hath neither beginning, nor ending, and therefore the glory of the Saints in Heaven is called an immortal, an immarcessible, incorruptible, 2and never fading Crown. The Crown of life signifies the lasting honour and glory of the Saints in Heaven. I have read of an Emperor that had three crowns, one on his sword, another on his head, and then cries out, Tertiam in Coelis, The third is in Heaven, and my hope 3(saith he) shall be in the everlasting Crown. The life to come is only the true life, the happy life, the safe life, the honourable life, the lasting, yea the everlasting life, and therefore the Crown is reserved for that life. King ⟨p. 102⟩William the Conqueror was crowned three times every year, all his reign, at three several places, viz. Gloucester, Winchester, and Westminster, but death hath long since put a period to his Crown. The Crowns of the greatest Monarchs in the world (though they last long) yet are 4corruptible, subject to wearing, cracking, stealing, they will be taken from them, or they from their crowns suddenly. Witness that pile of crowns (as the Historian speaks) that was piled up (as it were) at Alexander's gates, when he sate down and wept, because there were no more worlds to conquer. All Scripture and Histories do abundantly tell us, that there is nothing more fading than Princes crowns. But,
Fourthly, the Crown of life signifies a lasting Crown, a living Crown, to say the Crown of life is to say a living Crown, and living Crowns are only to be found in 1Heaven. The word, Crown, notes the perpetuity of glory. A Crown is round, and hath neither beginning, nor ending, and therefore the glory of the Saints in Heaven is called an immortal, an immarcessible, incurruptible,