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A29687	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 ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4939; ESTC R36378	584,294	672

under a black Cassock they dare be such they make no bones on 't to sin by prescription and to damn themselves with Authority Austin brings in some excusing their compliances with the sinfull customes of those times in drinking healths thus Great personages urged it and it was at the Kings Banquet where they judged of Loyalty by Luxury and put us upon this election drink or die they thought it a sufficient excuse to plead the examples of great men And if their examples are vertuous there are none so winning and drawing as theirs Carus the Romane Emperour us'd to say Bonus duae bonus comes A good leader makes a good follower It is observable in the very course of nature that the highest Spheres are alwayes the swiftest in their motion and carry about with them the inferior Orbes by their celerity so men that are high and eminent in Authority power and dignity and eminent also in grace and holiness they carry the inferior people by their examples to a liking of holiness and to a love of holiness and to a pursuit after holiness As the biggest Stars in the Firmament are alwayes the brightest and gives the greatest lustre to those of a lesser magnitude so those that in respect both of Greatness and grace are as so many shining Stars they give the greatest light and lustre to others by their shining conversations O! what a world of good will the gracious example of a good Prince provoke unto 'T was the saying of Trajanus a Spaniard Qualis Rex Talis Grex Subjects prove good by a good Kings example Stories tells us of some that could not sleep when they thought of the Trophies of other Worthies that went before them the gracious examples of great men are very awakening quickning and provoking to that which is good as is most evident in all those Kingdomes Countries Cities and villages where such men live And therefore great men are the more obliged to be good men and honorable men to be holy men But Fourthly Of all men under heaven you will have the greatest accounts to make up with God and therefore you have the more cause to seek after holiness Where God gives much Luke 12.48 It was excellent counsell that the Heathen Oratour gave his hearers Ita vi vamus ut ●ationem nobis reddendam arbitremur Let us so live as those that must give an account of all at last there he looks for much O Sirs God will bring you to an account for that Talent of honor and that Talent of wealth and that Talent of birth and that Talent of power and that Talent of Authority and that Talent of interest and that Talent of Time c. that he has intrusted you with and how will you be able to stand in the day of account without holiness in your hearts King Philip the third of Spaine whose life was free from gross evills professing that he would rather lose all his Kingdoms then offend God willingly yet being in the Agony of death and considering more thorowly of his account that he was to give to God feare struck into him and these words brake from him Oh would to God I had never reigned oh that those years I have spent in my kingdome I had lived a private life in the Wilderness oh that I had lived a solitary life with God! how much more securely should I have now dyed how much more confidently should I have gone to the Throne of God What do's all my glory profit me but that I have so much the more torment in my death Well Gentlemen there is a day a coming wherein the Lord will call you to a strict account both for the principall and also for the interest of all those Talents of honor riches and greatness c. that he has put into your hands and how will you be ever able to hold up your heads in this day of account without you experience principles of holiness in your hearts and hold forth the power of godliness in your lives If Saul was astonished when he heard Jesus of Nazareth but calling upon him Acts 22.7 8. Mark 6.16 1 Sam. 21.9 Num. 7.10 If Herod was affrighted when he thought that John Baptist was risen from the dead If the Philistians were afraid when they saw Davids Sword If the Israelites were appalled when they saw Aarons Rod Den. 38.2 If Judah was ashamed when he saw Thamars Signet and Staffe And if Belshazzar was amazed when he saw the hand writing on the wall Dan. 5.9 O! how astonished how affrighted how ashamed and how amazed will the great ones of the world be who live and die without holiness when God shall bring them to the Barr and command them to give an account of all the Talents that he has put into their hands If the Carthagenians were troubled when they saw Scipio's Sepulchre If the Saxons were terrified when they saw Cadwallon's Image And if the Romans were dashed when they saw Caesars bloody Robe Ah how will all the Great unholy ones of the earth be troubled terrified and dashed in the great day of their accounts there are none that will have such large accounts to give up as the great ones of the world and therefore there are none that stand so strongly engaged to look after holiness as they doe But Fifthly The greater any men are on earth if they live and die without holiness the greater will be their torments in hell all their Greatness Glory and Gallantry will but sink them the lower in hell The Scribes and Pharisees were the rich the high and the great ones of the times Math. 23.14 and these Christ lays under the greater damnation The Germans have this proverb The pavement of hell say they is made of the bare sculs of the Priests and the glorious Crests of Gallants Their meaning is that the more eminent any are in Church or State and doe not employ their eminency power and Authority in wayes of piety and sanctity the lower they shall lye in hell yea these men of all others shall lye lowest in hell Rev. 18.7 Isa 47.8 How much or in as much as she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her for she saith in her heart I sit a Queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow Babylons torment and sorrow must be sutable to her sin Babylon excell'd all others in pride haughtiness luxury and blasphemy c. and her punishments must be answerable So the Great the rich the high and the mighty men of the world they usually exceed all others in pride drunkenness uncleanness filthiness oppression vaine-glory Gluttony and Tyranny c. and answerable to their sins will be their torments and their punishments in hell Isa 30.33 For Tophet is ordained of old I it may be for the poore meane and beggarly of the world yea for the King it is prepared he hath made it deep

as I live saith the Lord God they shall deliver neither son nor daughter they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness Saints may prevail with God for themselves when they cannot prevail with him for others These three Noah Daniel and Job were very holy men they had great interest in God and were very prevalent with God But the Decree being gone forth they could not prevail with God for others yet their righteousness should be their own preservation safety and security in dayes of calamity and misery So in Isa 33.15 16. He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evil He shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munition of rocks bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure Let us dive a little into this admirable promise He shall dwell on high but rather as the Hebrew hath it He shall dwell on hights if the holy man were among his enemies he might be in danger but he shall dwell on hights on many hights and many ascents he shall be out of harms way out of Gun-shot he shall be above the reach of danger O! but his enemies may raise up mounts and so get as high as he is Well grant that but yet they shall not hurt him for he is in a place of defence O! but though he be in a place of defence yet his defence is not so strong but it may be broken down and destroyed No not so for his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks many rocks and many munitions of rocks shall be the place of his defence and therefore his defence is impregnable and invincible O! but though his defence be munitions of rocks yet he may be famished he may be starved out for rocks are barren places and there is no plowing and sowing upon rocks No he shall not be starved nor famished out of his strong place of defence for bread shall be given him God will spread a Table for him O! but though he hath bread yet he may perish for want of water for he hath no faith skill nor power to fetch water out of a Rock Moses had not and he hath not and therefore he may be forced to deliver up his place of defence for water to quench his thirst as King Lysimachus and others have done no not so for he shall have water too O but his water may be spent his water will not alwaies last his Well as well as Hagars bottle may be dry his pipes may be cut off or the water that now supplies him may be turned another way No not so for his water shall be sure O! the safety and security of holy men Plutarch in the life of Alexander tells us that when he came to besiege the Sogdians a people who dwelt upon a Rock or such as had the munition of Rocks for their defence they jeered him and asked him whether his souldiers had wings or not for said they except your souldiers can fly in the air we fear you not Such is the safety of Gods holy ones that they need not to fear There are no ladders long enough to scale their place of defence nor no Artillery or Engine strong enough to batter down their munitions of Rocks There is an Apologue how the Dove made moan to her fellow birds of the tyrannie of the Hawk one counsels her to keep below but saith another The Hawk can stoop for his prey another advised her to soar aloft but saith another the Hawk can mount as high as she another wished her to shroud her self in the woods for there she should be secure but saith another alas there is the Hawks Mannour the place where he keeps Court another bids her keep the Town but saith another that is to become a prey to man but at last one bids her rest her self in the holes of the Rock and there she should certainly be safe for violence it self could not surprize her there and there she was safe Dove-like Saints they have their munitions of Rocks to fly to and there they shall be safe O Sirs there is no breast-plate to that of Righteousness there is no Armour of proof no munitions of Rocks to that of holinesse Heylin Cosm lib. 3. Noahs holinesse was an Ark to save him when Nimrods Tower of Babel which was raised five thousand one hundred forty six paces high could not secure him And therefore as you tender your own safety and security in times of trouble and calamity O labour to be holy Fourthly By holinesse you will gain deliverance from death in death Prov. 11.4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousness delivereth from death and Chap. 10.2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness delivereth from death Nugas the Scythian King despised the rich presents and ornaments that were sent unto him by the Emperour of Constantinople because they could not ward off sorow sickness diseases death Many Treasuries of the most precious Jewels that be in the world cannot ward off a blow a disease a sicknesse in the day of Gods wrath It is not the Crown of gold that can cure the head-ache nor the golden Scepter that can cure the Palsie hand nor the Neck-lase of Pearl that can cure the Aking teeth nor the Honourable Garter that can ease the Gowt nor the Purple Robe that can chase away the burning Feaver nor the Velvet Slipper that can heal the kibe-heel no more can Treasures of gold or silver deliver from wrath or help in a day of death O but Righteousnesse that delivers from death Look what the Sword the Shield the Helmet the Brest-plate the Coat of Mail is to the Souldier in the heat of battell that all that and more then that is righteousnesse to the righteous in the day of death Righteousnesse or holinesse of affection of action of life and conversation delivers from spiritual death and from eternal death yea it delivers from the evil the hurt the horror the terror the dread and the stinge of temporal death Piety delivers not only from the second death but also from all the evils and miseries of the first death too As the righteousnesse of the righteous will be a royal protection to him both against the day of wrath and the wrath of the day So the righteousnesse of the righteous will be a royal protection to him both against death and against all the evils of death Righteousnesse unstings death it takes away the venome the poyson and bitternesse of death It turns that curse into a blessing that punishment into a benefit that night of darknesse into a day of light that wildernesse into a Paradise that hell into a heaven Prov. 12.28 In the way of righteousnesse is life and in the path thereof there is no death In

man has of his Justification the stronger will be his consolation and indeed the strongest waters of consolation doe alwayes flow from a cleare sight and a true sense of a mans justification no man lives so comfortably no man bares the cross so sweetly no man resists the devill and the world so stoutly nor no man will die so chearfully as he that lives and dies in a cleare sight of his Justification The more holiness any man attaines to the more his feares will be scattered his doubts resolved and all those impediments removed that commonly bar out joy and comfort and what will be the happy issue of these things but the bringing in of a sea of joy and comfort into the soul 'T is not riches nor honors nor applause nor learning nor friends nor a great name in the world but an eminency in holiness that can highly raise the springs of divine joy in a Christians soul Though the windowes of the Temple were broad without but narrow within yet the joy and comfort of a Christian that is eminent in holiness is broad and full within though it be narrow and contracted without O Sirs as ever you would have your joy full labour for a heart fill'd with holiness your comforts will be alwayes few and low if your holiness be low Why have the Angels alwayes Harpes in their hands and Hallelujah's in their mouths but because they have attain'd to a fulness of holiness But Seventhly To provoke you to labour after higher degrees of holiness Consider that the more holy any person is the more the Lord will reveale and manifest himselfe and his mind and will unto him Joh. 14.21 23. Hosea 6.3 Ezekiel was a man of eminent holiness and a man that had glorious visions and deep mysteries and rare discoveries of God and of the great things that should be brought about in the latter dayes See 2 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 Chapters of Daniel discovered to him And Daniel was a man of very great holiness and O what secrets and mysteries did God reveale to him many of those great and glorious things which concernes the destruction of the four last Monarchies and the growth increase exaltation flourishing durable invincible and unconquerable estate of his own kingdome was discovered to him 2 Cor. 12.2 4. Among all the Apostles Paul was a man of the greatest holiness and of all the Apostles Paul had the most glorious revelations and discoveries of God manifested to him witness those glorious Revelations that he had when he was caught up into the third heaven into Paradise and heard unspeakable words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or wordless words such as words were too weak to utter such as was not possible for man to utter and that either because they transcended mans capacity in this life or else because the Apostle was forbidden to utter them they being revealed to him not for the publike use of the Church but only for his particular encouragement that so he might be the better able to encounter with all the hardships difficulties dangers and deaths that should attend him in the conscientious discharge of his ministerial work Some of the Ancients are of opinion that he saw Gods essence for say they other things in heaven might have been uttered but the essence of God is so great and so glorious a thing that no man or Angel can utter it or declare it but here I must crave leave to enter my dissent for the Scripture is express in this John 1.18 1 Tim. 6.16 1 Ioh. 4.12 that no man hath thus ever seen the Lord at any time and that no man can thus see the Lord and live And as great a favourite of heaven as Moses was yet he could only see the back parts of God he could only behold some lower representations of God Others say that he heard the heavenly singing of Angels and blessed Spirits which was so sweet so excellent and glorious that no mortall man was able to utter it and this of the two is most probable but no man is bound to make this opinion an Article of his faith this I think we may safely conclude that in this rapture besides the contemplation of Celestial Mysteries he felt such unspeakable delight and pleasure that was either like to that or exceeding that which Adam took in the terrestrial Paradise doubtless the Apostle did see and heare such excellent and glorious things as was impossible for the tongue of any mortal man to express or utter And so John was a man of most rare holiness and Christ reveals to him the General estate of his Church and all that should befall his people and that from Johns time unto his second coming Christ gives John a true representation of all the troubles tryalls changes mercies and glories that in all times and in all Ages and places should attend his Church untill he came in all his glory About sixty years after Christs ascension 'T is the General opinion of the learned that this book of the Revelation was penned about the latter end of the Reigne of Domitian the Emperour which was about sixty years after Christs Ascension Christ comes to John and opens his heart and unbosomes his soul and makes knowne to him all that care that love that tenderness that kindness and that sweetness that he would exercise towards his Church from that very time to the end of the world Christ tells John that though he had been absent and seemingly silent for about threescore years that yet he was not so taken up with the delights contents and glory of heaven as that he did not care what became of his Church on earth O! no And therefore he opens his choicest secrets and makes knowne the most hidden and glorious mysteries to John that ever was made knowne to any man As there was none that had so much of the heart of Christ as John so there was none that had so much of the eare of Christ as John Christ singles out his servant John from all the men in the world and makes knowne to him all the happy providences and all the sad occurrences that were to come upon the followers of the Lamb that so they might know what to pray for and what to fit for and what to waite for also he declares to John all that wrath and vengeance all that desolation and destruction that should come upon the false Prophet and the Beast and upon all that wondered after them and that were worshippers of them and that had received their marks either in their foreheads or in their hands We reade of holy Polycarpus that as he lay in his bed he saw in a vision the bed set on fire under his head A vision and thus God did forewarne him and manifest to him what manner of death he should die and accordingly it fell out for he was burnt for the cause of Christ and rejoycingly sealed to the

may bee able after my decease to have these things alwaies in remembrance The Apostle having the sentence of death in himself O! how doth hee bestir himself and how doth hee stir up all that grace and holiness that was in his heart yea and all his Ministerial and Apostolical gifts and all to better himself and to make those that were really holy to bee eminently holy Peter being very sensible of the neer approaches of death did very earnestly desire and greatly endeavour so to act his part before he went off the stage of live that when his head was in the dust and his soul in heaven those Saints that should survive him might bee very famous in grace and holiness That of Eleazer is very remarkable who would not do any thing which might seem to bee evil because he would not spot his white head O Sirs when once the Gray hairs of holiness and righteousness are upon you it highly concerns you to shun the very shews and appearances of evil that so you may not spot nor stain the honour of your white head I have read of Joshua that valliant Souldier that when hee was a young man and in the prime and flower of his daies when his bones were full of marrow and his breasts full of milk as Job speaks that then hee was least in vigour and valour for God and how that sometimes in cases of eminent danger hee would conceal himself but when hee grew older and found the strength of nature declining and decaying then hee bestired himself exceedingly for God O Sirs when you have one foot in the Grave God calls aloud upon you to bestir your selves exceedingly for his honour and glory and for your own internal and eternal welfare Solon was not ashamed to say that hee learned much in his old age And Julianius the Lawyer was wont to say that when hee had one foot in the Grave hee would have the other in the School O Sirs shall nature do more than grace shall morality excel real piety 'T was the glorious commendation of the Church of Thiatira that her last works were more than her first Rev. 2.19 I know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy work and the last to bee more than the first O the happiness of that man that is best at last that brings forth most of the fruits of Righteousness and Holiness in old age O the blessedness of that man whose Faith is more strong at last than at first and whose love is more inflamed at last than at first and whose hopes are more raised and elevated at last than at first and whole knowledge is more clear at last than at first whose zeal is warmer at last than at first and whose thoughts are more heavenly at last than at first and whose heart is more spiritual at last than at first and whose communion with God is more high at last than at first and whose life is more holy at last than at first If there be any man in the world that is ripe for Heaven and that injoyes a Heaven in his own soul on this side Heaven this is the man whose graces and whose gracious works are more at last than at first Well Christians for ever remember this the neerer death makes her approaches to you the louder God calls upon you to be holy And thus by a hand of grace that hath been in mee upon mee and with me I have shewed you what those special times and seasons are wherein God calls loudest for holiness and so according to my weak measure I have given out all that the Lord hath graciously given in concerning that most necessary that most noble that most glorious and that most useful point of points viz. Holiness and therefore I have nothing more to do but earnestly to pray that what hath been spoken and written may be so blest from on high that it may work mightily to the internal and eternal welfare both of Writer Reader and Hearer that so when their Race is run and their Work done here on earth they may be everlastingly blest with a happy sight of the Beatifical Vision of God in Heaven Amen FINIS Books sold by Henry Cripps in Popes-Head-Alley SIbbs Saints Cordials Reynors Government of the Tongue Armetages Sermons Roman Antiquities Burtons Melancholy Youngs whole duty of a Christian Supplication of Saints Cradocks Works Huit on Daniel Sarah Wight Cotton on the seven Viols Hookers Souls-preparation for Christ Goodwins Childe of Light walking in darkness Reynolds on Hosea Tichburns Cluster of Canaans-Grapes Baxters Doctrine of Self-poseing An Abstract of the Assemblies Catechism J. Goodwins Saints Interest in God Dingly of Thunder Books sold by Henry Mortlock at the sign of the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard near the Little North-door Folios A Commentary upon the whole Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully opened with a Logical Analysis spiritual and holy Observations Confutation of Armianism and Popery By Mr. Paul Bain A Commentary on the Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles and the Major Prophets By John Trapp M. A. Quartoes An Exposition of the Prophecy of Ezekiel By W. Greenhill Some Sermons preached upon several occasions By P. Sterry A Way to Zion sought out and found for Beleevers to walk in By Daniel King Preacher of the Word neer Coventry Funebria Florae The Downfall of May-Games By Tho. Hall B.D. and Pastor of Kings-Norton in VVorcestershire The loathsomness of long Hair or A Treatise wherein you have the Question stated many Arguments against it produced and the most material arguments for it refelled and answered with an Appendix against Painting Spots naked-breasts c. By the same Author Samuel in Sackcloth or a Sermon assaying to restrain our bitter Animosities and commending a spirit of moderation and right constitution of soul and behaviour towards our Brethren upon 1 Sam. 15.35 Large Octavoes The Hypocrites Ladder or Looking-Glass or a Discourse of the dangerous and destructive nature of Hypocrisie the reigning and provoking sin of this age wherein is shewed how far the Hypocrite or formal Professor may go towards Heaven yet utterly perish by three Ladders of sixty steps of his Ascending By John Sheffield Minister of the Word at Swithins London An Improvement of the Sea upon the nine Nautical Verses in the 107. Psalm wherein among other things you have a very full and delightful Description of all those many various and multitudinous Objects which they behold in their Travels through the Lords Creation both on Sea in Sea and on Land viz. All sorts and kinds of Fish Fowl and Beasts whether wilde or tame all sorts of Trees and Fruit all sorts of People Cities Towns and Countries By Daniel Pell Preacher of the Word A Caveat against Seducers in a Sermon preached by Rich. Stand-fast Rector of Christ-Church in Bristol Together with the Blind Mans Meditations by the same Author A Treatise of Divine Meditation by