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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

that faithful Servant of Jesus Christ John Ball late Minister of the Gospel at Whitmore in Stafford-shire published by M. Simeon Ash Preacher of the Gospel at Austins London Irenicum A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds Or the Divine Right of particular Forms of Church-Government discussed and examined by Edward Stillingfleete Rector of Sutton in Bedford-shire The second Edition corrected An Exposition by way of Supplement on the 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th Chapters on the Prophecy of Amos where you have the Text fully explained other Texts occasionally cleared many Cases Stated many practical Observations raised and many Polemical Points debated by Tho. Hall B. D. and Pastor of Kings-Norton A Cluster of Grapes taken out of the Basket of the Woman of Canaan or Counsel and Comfort for Beleeving Souls By John Durant late Preacher of the Gospel in Canterbury A Call to the Unconverted By Richard Baxter A Latin and English Grammar By Charls Hool M. A. Books sold by John Sims at the Cross-Keyes in St. Pauls Church-yard CHrist the Pattern of a Christians Practise By Mr. Ralph Robinson Octavo Several Peeces of Mr. Ralph Venning collected into one Volume viz. Orthodox Paradoxes Mysteries and Revelations Canaans Flowings A Warning to Backsliders The Way to True Happiness Mercies memorial 8 to A Practical Discourse of Prayer wherein is handled the Nature the Duty and the Qualifications of Prayer By Tho. Cobbet Minister of the Gospel 8 to Two Treatises of Mr. Brinseley 1. A Groan for Israel 2. The Spiritual Vertigo with two other Treatises viz. Three Sacred Emblems 2. Tears for Jerusalem By the same Author 8 to Irenicum A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds Or the Divine Right of particular Forms of Church-Government discussed and examined By Edward Stilling fleete Rector of Sutton in Bedford-shire The second Edition corrected 4 to FINIS THE TABLE CHristian Reader take notice that the Pages are misfigured for next to page 240. followes page 280. yet doe thou but follow the directionss laid downe in the Table and without any further trouble to thy self thou will find any particular that thou hast a mind to be satisfied in A. OF Adams holiness in innocency Page 5 6 7. The greatness of Adams sin in four particulars Page 52. Of Adoption Reall holiness is a sure evidence of a mans Adoption Page 624 625 626. Of Admiration Holy persons are much taken up in the Admiration of the holiness of God Page 102 103 104 Of being Afflicted Holy persons are much afflicted c. with their own unholyness Page 123 124 125 126. And much affected and afflicted with the unholiness of others Page 139 140 141. Afflictions Of great and heavy afflictions Page 363 364 The more a man can divinely rejoyce under afflictions the greater measures of holiness that man has certainly attained to Page 600 601 602. Of All Things All things shall be sanctified to the holy man Page 629 630. Of Approving a mans self to God The more a man makes it his great business to approve himself to God the greater measure of holiness that man has attained to Page 609 610 611. Of Authors That unholy persons are to be shut out from special Communion with the people of God is made evident by the Judgements of many Learned and approved Authors Page 51 52 53 54. B. Of Beasts Vnholy persons are Beasts yea the worst of Beasts Page 54 55 56. Of Blessings God will certainly bless all a holy mans blessings to him Page 622 623. Of Boldness The more holy any man is the more bold and couragious that man will be for God and Godliness Page 507 508 509. C. Of severall Cannots There is a threefold Cannot 1. A natural Cannot 2. A contracted and habituated cannot 3. A judicial cannot Page 21-25 Of Conformity to Christ True holiness is conformable to the holiness of Christ Page 138 139. Of Civil men Meere civil men shall not go to Heaven Page 77 78 79. Of Company He that will be holy must keep company with those that are holy Page 307 308. And he that will perfect holiness in the feare of the Lord must be most In with them that are most excellent in holiness Page 577 578. Of Communion There is no spiritual communion with God in this world without holiness Page 28 29 30. Vnholy persons are to be shut out from sacred and special communion with the people of God in this world This proved by an induction of ten particulars Page 44-54 The more holy any man is the more communion that man will have with God Page 491 492 493. Of Comparing your selves with others Take heed of comparing your selves with those that are worse then your selves Page 284 285. Of Contrariety Vnholy persons are full of contrariety to God Page 27 28. Of being Condemned Vnholy persons are adjudged and condemned to hell Page 57 58 59 60 61 62. Of Conversion The persecutions of the Saints may issue in the conversion of sinners Page 401 402 403. Many that have been converted later then others do yet in holiness much excell them Page 504 505. D. Of Death Take heed of putting the day of death far from you three arguments to perswade to this Page 288-296 Of Degrees A holy person will be still reaching after higher degrees of holiness Page 107 108 109. Christians must press after the highest degrees of holiness Page 468 469. About degrees of glory in Heaven see Heaven Of Delight The more holy any man is the more he will be the delight of God c. Page 488 489. Tbis is further proved by five Arguments Page 490 491 492 493 494. God takes singular delight both in a holy mans person and in his services to Page 616 617 618 619. Of Self-denyall The more a man can deny himself when he hath power and opportunity to raise himself c. the greater measure of holiness he has attained to Page 612 613 614. 620 621. Of Discord No speciall communion to be held with those that cause discord and division among the Saints Page 46. Of the Doctrine The Doctrine is this That reall holiness is the onely way to happiness All men must be holy on earth or they shall never see the Beatifical Vision they shall never reach to a glorious fruition of God in Heaven Page 5. The Doctrine proved by ten Arguments Page 18-62 Of holy Duties The holy mans duties are most delightfull to God Page 632 633 634. Reall holiness naturaliseth holy duties to the soule Page 126 127 128. The more holy any man is the more singular delight and pleasure God will take in all his Religious duties and services Page 502 503 504. When men in the maine are as holy out of Religious duties as they are in Religious duties t is an evidence of a great measure of holiness that they have attained to Page 600. The more a man is exercised in the most spirituall and internall duties of Religion the more holiness he hath attained to Page 605

prepared his Table and made a feast of fat things for their souls in the Ministry of his word they can easily and readily passe over those sound solid and savoury truths that are prepared for their strength and nourishment and fall a pidling and picking upon some new coined phrases or some quaint expressions or some Seraphical notions And no wonder for they are not sound within they are under a great distemper As the Israelites would not be satisfied with wholsome diet but they must needs have Quails as picking meat Well they had them and whilest they were at their picking meat the wrath of God came upon them the Application is as easie as it is dreadfull But now a holy heart savours the word and relishes the word and is affected and taken with the word as it is a holy word a substantial word a pure word a clean word and as it begets holinesse and cherishes holinesse and increases holinesse and as it works towards the compleating and perfecting of holinesse Quest But how may a person know whether he loves the Word and is affected and taken with the Word as it is an holy Word or no Answ First by what hath been already said but because the question is weighty Psalm 119.6 128. Acts 24.16 Heb. 13.18 As the wise Philosopher delights in all Aristotle and the prudent Physitian in all Galen and the grave Orator in all Tullie and the understanding Lawyer in all Justinian so a holy man delights in all the Bible The Jewish Rabbines were wont to say That upon every letter of the Law there hangs mountains of profitable matter Gen. 12. and ●hap 22. I further answer in the second place He that loves the Word and that is affected and taken with the Word as it is a holy Word he loves the whole Word of God and he is affected and taken with one part of the Word as well as another every Law of God is a holy Law and every Statute is a holy Statute and every command is a holy command and every promise is a holy promise and every threatning is an holy threatning and every exhortation is a holy exhortation and therefore he that loves any part of the Word as a holy Word he cannot but love every part of the Word because every part of the Word is holy And indeed he loves no part of the Word as holy who loves not every part of the Word as such Every chapter in the book of God is a holy chapter and every verse is a holy verse and every line in that book is a holy line and every word in every line is a holy word he that loves a chapter as it is a holy chapter he loves every verse in that chapter as a holy verse and he that loves every verse as a holy verse he loves every line as a holy line and he that loves every line as a holy line he loves every word in every line as a holy word Upon easie commands he reads holiness and upon difficult commands he reads holiness upon comfortable commands he reads holiness and upon costly commands he reads holiness and upon dangerous commands he reads holiness and therefore he loves all and closes with all and endeavours a conformity to all A holy heart dares neither to dispute with that word nor make light of that word where he reads holiness engraven upon it to a holy heart there is no command of God unjust or unreasonable but now an unholy heart though it may for some worldly advantages court and cry up some parts of the word yet it is ready with Judas to betray and crucifie other parts of the word The whole Scripture is but one intire love-letter dispatcht from the Lord Christ to his beloved Spouse on earth and this letter is written all in golden letters and therefore a holy heart cannot but be taken and affected with every line in this letter in this love-letter there is so much to be read of the love of Christ the heart of Christ the kindness of Christ the grace of Christ and the glory of Christ that a holy heart cannot but be affected and taken with it The whole word of God is a field and Christ is the treasure that is hid in that field it is a ring of gold and Christ is the pearl in that ring and therefore a holy heart cannot but be taken with the whole Word of God Luther was wont to say that he would not take all the world for one leaf of the Bible And Rabbie Chija in the Jerusalem Talmud says that in his account all the world is not of equal value with one word out of the Law Thirdly A man that is affected and taken with the word as it is a holy word he is alwayes affected and taken with it he loves it and takes pleasure in it as well in adversity as in prosperity Psalm 119.59 Thy Statutes have been my songs I but where we in the house of my pilgrimage or pilgrimages The Saints have commonly lookt upon themselves as Pilgrims and Strangers in this world Gen. 47.9 39. Psal 12.19 Heb. 11.9 10 c. as the Hebrew hath it When David was in his banishments by reason of Saul Absolom and others now the Word of God was musick to him now it was matter of joy and rejoycing to him his whole life was the life of a Pilgrim and Stranger now as a Pilgrim he sojourns here and anon as a Stranger he sojourns there no man could take more pleasure joy and contentment in the rarest and choicest musick then David did in the Word of God and that not only when he was in his royal Palace but also when he was in the house of his Pilgrimage he that loves the Word and that delights in the Word for its holiness and purity Psal 119.67 69 70 72. he will love it and delight in it in health and sickness in strength and weakness in honour and disgrace in wealth and want in life and in death The holiness of the Word is a lasting holiness and so will every mans affections be towards it who affects it and is taken with it for its holiness and pureness Some there be that cry up the Word and that seem to be much affected delighted and ravished with the Word as Herod Ezekiels hearers Ezek. 33.30 31 32 33. Mar. 6 c. and the stony ground was whilest the Word is either a cheap Word to them or a profitable and pleasing Word to them or whilest it is courted and countenanced in the world or whilest it is the path to preferment or a key to enlargement c. But when the Word gets within them and discovers their own sinfulness and wretchedness to them when it shews them how Christless and gracel●ss and lifeless and helpless and hopeless they are when it discovers how far they are from heaven and how near they are to hell O! Ier. 44.15 29. then their hearts begin

book of life And thus you see on all hands that suffering for Christ is the highest honour that you are capable of in this world And therefore there is little reason why a Christian should shrink or shrug at sufferings But Ninthly I answer That the afflictions persecutions and sufferings that attend Christians in these dayes are nothing to the fiery trialls that the Saints and Martyrs of old have met with For seven-fold harder measure has been measured forth to them then is this day measured forth to us our sufferings are hardly to be nam'd in the day wherein those sore and heavy things are mentioned that those precious and famous Worthyes of old have suffered I may say to most Christians as the Apostle did to the Hebrewes Heb. 12.4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin many have but you have not you have only met with hard words when others have met with blowes and wounds you have been only a contending with men when others have been a contending with beasts you have been only whipt with Rosemary branches when others have been whipt with Scorpions you have been only bound with silken bands when others have been bound with Iron chaines Will you be so favourable to your selves as to compare your sufferings with the sufferings of former Saints and that you may let me give you a little Breviate of their sufferings of whom the world was not worthy History tells us that in the Ten primitive persecutions they exercised all manner of cruelty and torments that could be devised against the Christians 1. in the Reigne of Adrian the Emperour there were ten thousand Christians crucified in the Mount Ararat crowned with crownes of Thornes and thrust into the sides with sharp darts 2. Others were so whipt that their very inward arteries and veines appeared and their intrailes and bowells were seen and afterwards they were set upon sharp shells taken out of the Sea edged and sharp and certaine nailes and thornes were sharpned and pointed called Obelisci for them to goe upon and after all this cruelty they were throwne to wild beasts to be devoured 3. Multitudes were banished 4. Others were drawn asunder with wild Horses 5. Some were Rackt with bars of Iron 6. Others were cast into loathsome Dungeons 7. Some were burnt in the fire 8. Others were knockt downe and had their braines beate out with Staves and Clubs 9. Some were prickt in their faces and eyes with sharp Reeds 10. Others were stoned to death with stones as Stephen was 11. Some were dashed in pieces against Mill-stones 12. Others had their teeth dasht out of their Jawes and their joynts broken 13. Some were cast downe from very high places 14. Others were beheaded 15. Some were tormented with Razors 16. Others were slaine with the sword 17. Some were run thorow with Pikes 18. Others were driven into the wilderness where they wandered up and downe suffering hunger and cold and where they were exposed to the fury both of wild beasts and also to the rage of the barbarous Arabians 19. Some fled into Caves which by their persecutors were rammed up with stones and there they dyed 20. Others were troden to death by the people 21. Some were hanged on Gibbets with fire under their sides 22. Others were cast into the Sea and drown'd 23. Some were slaine in mettal Mines 24. Others were hanged by the feet and choaked with the smoak of a small fire their leggs being first broken 25. Some were poudered with salt and vineger and then roasted with a soft fire 26. Others were hanged by one hand that they might feele the weight of their whole bodies scorching broyling over burning Coales 27. Some were shot through with Arrowes and afterwards thrown into stinking Jakes 28. Others were stript stark-naked as ever they were borne and turned out of doores in cold frosty nights and burnt the next day 29. In Syria a company of Christian virgins were stript stark-naked to be scorned by the multitude then shaved then covered with swill and draffe and then torne in pieces and devoured by swine 30. Lastly many women had one joynt of their bodies pulled from another And another cruelty that they practised in the primitive times was this They would make Fathers to kindle the Faggots to burne their own children c. and their flesh and sides scratched with Tallons of wild Beasts to the bones and their breasts seared with Torches till they dyed And thus you have an account of thirty severall wayes by which the precious sons and daughters of Zion have formerly been afflicted tormented and destroyed and what heart of stone can reade over this bill of particulars with dry eyes And now tell me Sirs whether your fufferings are worth a naming in that day wherein the sufferings of the precious servants of God in the primitive times are spoken of O no well then take heed of making Mole-hills mountaines and of crying out is there any sorrow to our sorrow or any sufferings to our sufferings But Tenthly I answer That unholy persons have suffered as great and grievous things for the satisfying of their lusts and humors and for the compassing of some worldly good as you have suffered Witness Jehu Ahab Jezebel Balaam Judas c. or are like to suffer for your pursuing after holiness O the hazards the dangers the deaths that many have run through to gratifie their lusts Petrus Blesensis has long since observed that the Courtiers of his time suffered as many vexations with weariness and painfulness with hunger and thirst and with all the Catalogue of Pauls afflictions that is reckon'd up in that 2 Cor. 11. as good Christians did for the truth I have read of a Roman servant who knowing his Master was sought for by Officers to be put to death he to save his Masters life put himselfe into his Masters Cloathes that he might be taken for him and accordingly he was taken and put to death for him and all this out of a humor of vaine glory The Romans desire of the praises of men saith Augustin made them bountifull of their purfes and prodigall of their lives This was in Anno 1555. c. Servetus at Geneva gave all his goods to the poore and his body to be burnt and all for a name for a little glory among men saith Calvin Ah what cutting what lancing what bleeding what vomitting and what searching will many men endure upon the advice of their Physitians and all for a little health a little ●trength or to preserve a wretched life for a few dayes yea for a few houres sometimes O the tortures and torments that many Romans and others have undergon sometimes out of love to their Countrey and sometimes to maintaine their credit and reputation among men and sometimes out of an affectation of future fame and renowne and to eternalize their names and why then should Christians thinke so much of suffering afflictions and persecutions for holiness

mother And the king of Israel said unto him Nay for the Lord hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab And Elisha said as the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat the King of Judah I would not look toward thee nor see thee 'T was not the great distress and danger that they were in being like to perish for want of water nor the dignity of Kings nor the number of three but the goodness the graciousness and holiness of Jehoshaphat that wrought upon Elisha to work a miracle to preserve them and their people alive the holy Prophet carries it very high towards this unholy Prince for had it not been for Jehoshaphat he would not have honored him with a look no not with a cast of his eye these words I would not look toward thee nor see thee are words of a very high strain and speak out a great deal of holy-loftiness stateliness and contempt towards King Jehoram And the same spirit was working in Mordecai towards wicked Haman as you may see in that Esth 3.2 And all the Kings servants that were in the Kings gate bowed and reverenced Haman for the King had so commanded concerning him but Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence The Persian The Persians manner was to kneel down and reverence their Kings and such as he appointed in chief authority which Mordecai would not do to this proud ambitious wicked Haman though all the Courtiers and the Kings Life-Guard and all that had occasions to attend the Court did Kings as many other heathenish Kings were reverenced by their subjects with a kind of Divine honor or service and such reverence and honor the King commanded should be shewed to his great favourite Haman but this renowned Mordecai refused to do he was so Divinely noble and stout that he would not reverence such a wicked wretch in his heart nor yet yeild to him that outward worship that was required by the King it being more then was due to a man Some of the Rabbins say As Aben Ezra c. that Haman had the Image of some false god about him and that therefore Mordecai would not bow before him least he might seem to bow to the Idol that Haman carried about him Others of the Rabbins say as R Salomon c. that Haman did make himself a God and required such worship as was due onely to the true God and that therefore Mordecai would not reverence him nor bow before him And so Junius and other Expositors say that it was more honor then did belong to a man that they gave to Haman and that therefore Mordecai refused to bow to him And 't is very remarkable that some of the wisest and best of Heathens have forborn to come into their Kings presence because there was expected greater honor and worship to be done to their Kings then was meet to be done to a mortal man but that which is most considerable and most probable is this that therefore Mordecai refused to reverence Haman and to bow unto him because he was a wicked Amalekite and a bitter enemy to the people of God and of that Nation of that stock whose remembrance God would have blotted out under heaven Exod. 17.14 Deut. 25.19 and with whom the Lord had sworn that he would have war from generation to generation untill they were utterly wasted and destroyed Exod. 17.16 Compared with that 1 Sam. 15.3 It has been usual with the Saints to slight such who have been slighters of Christ and holiness I shal look upon Auxentius no otherwise then as upon a devil so long as he is an Arrian said holy Hilary When Amphilochius the Bishop came into the presence of the Emperor Archadius and his son who was then partner with his father in the Empire he saluted the Emperor with all reverence but slighted his son whereupon the Emperor was very much displeased and demanding the reason why he so slighted his son the Bishop answered Because he had slighted and neglected the eternal Son of God he being at that time a professed Arrian whereupon the Emperor received the Bishop again into favor and banished all Arrians out of his Dominions I have read of one Maris a godly Bishop of Calcedon who being blind and Julian that Apostate Emperor giving him some opprobrious words calling him blind fool because he had rebuked him for his Apostasie the good man answered thus I bless God that I have not my sight to see such an ungracious face as thine is Do your worst do your worst said Justin Martyr slightingly to his pe secutors but this I will tell you you may put all that you are like to gain by the bargain into your eye and weep it out again When a great Lord of this Land who was as graceless as he was great met Mr. Fox in London streets and ask't him how he did Mr. Fox said little or nothing to him whereupon says this great Lord Sir do you not know me No not I said Mr. Fox says the Lord I am such a one Sir said Mr. Fox I desire to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified Policarpus meeting at a certain time with Marcion the Heretick says Marcion don't you know me yea said Policarpus Eusebius I know thee to be primo genitum Diaboli the first begotten child of the devil And indeed why should we prefer him before a piece of Copper that prefers a piece of Gold before his God yea that prefers his lusts and every toy and trifle before Jesus Christ his immortal soul and the great concernments of another world God commanded in the old Law that whatsoever did go with its breasts upon the ground should be an abomination to us O how much more should we abominate that man whose heart and soul is glued unto a piece of earth or to this or that defiling destroying lust Pro. 29.27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked The quarrel between the seed of the Woman Gen. 3.15 and the seed of the Serpent is almost six thousand years old light and darkness heaven and hell The Antipathies that are in nature between the Elephant and the Boar the Lyon and the Cock c. is nothing to that which is between the just and the unjust are not more opposite and contrary one to another then these are contrary one to another that seed of enmity that was at first between them is now grown up on both sides to an abomination and an abhorring of each other the just man saith what have I to do with thee thou son of Belial and the unjust man saith what have I to do with thee thou son of David the original in the text last cited is observable the just abhorreth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vir iniquitatis

love is a holy love and his anger is a holy anger and his hatred is a holy hatred c. His nature is holy his attributes are holy and all his actions are holy hee is holy in punishing and holy in sparing hee is holy in justifying of some and hee is holy condemning of others hee is holy in bringing some to Heaven and holy in throwing others to Hell God is holy in all his sayings and God is holy in all his doings God is holy in what ever hee puts his hand to and hee is holy in what ever hee sets his heart to his frowns are holy and his smiles are holy his liftings up are holy and his castings down are holy when hee gives his givings are holy givings and when hee takes away his takings are holy takings c. But Fourthly As God is universally holy so God is eminently holy hee is transcendently holy hee is superlatively holy Exo. 15.11 and therefore hee is said to bee glorious in holiness there is no fathoming there is no measuring there is no comprehending there is no searching of that infinite Sea of holiness that is in God as neither Men nor Angels can set banks or bounds to Gods holiness so neither Men nor Angels can sound to the bottome of Gods holiness all that holiness that is in Angels and Men is but a spark to Gods flame t is but a drop to his sea t is but a beam to his sun t is but a mite to his millions c. O Sirs you shall as soon stop the Sun in his course and change the day into night and raise the dead and make a world and tell the stars of heaven and empty the sea with a Cockle-shell as you shall bee able either to conceive or express that transcendent holiness that is in God This glorious Name or Title the holy one of Israel is ascribed to God about thirty times in the Old Testament and all to shew that hee is most excellent and transcendent in holiness and the Seraphims which stood before the Throne cryed out three times a row Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of hosts Isa 6.3 to shew that God is most eminently and superlatively holy for so thrice holy in some languages is most holy for holiness God is a none-such there are none to bee compared with him neither are there any among Angels or among Men yea or among the Gods that are like unto him who is like to thee among the Gods glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders Gods holiness is infinite t is so super-eminent and so super-excellent that it can neither bee limited nor lessened nor augmented if men should blaspheme or reproach the Lord hee would bee never the worse he would be never the lesse holier then hee is and if men should bless him and worship him hee would bee never the better never the holier unto perfection there can be no addition a drop taken out of the sea can no waies add unto the sea Hee is exalted above all blessing and praise Nehe. 9.5 All the Angels in Heaven and all the men on earth cannot add one Ray one Beam of glory to the essence of God to the holiness of God as God is goodness in the very Abstract and justice in the very abstract and mercy in the very abstract and righteousness in the very abstract and lovingkindness in the very abstract so hee is holiness in the very Abstract so that no man can flatter him or add unto him and hence t is that God glories in the Attribute of his Holiness more than in any other Attribute For Isa 57.15 thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose name is holy when God would lift up himself in all his Glory hee doth it by declaring that his name is holy and so when God would swear by himself hee swears by his holiness Psal 89.25 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lye unto David and so in that Amos 4.2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness that lo the daies shall come upon you that hee will take you with hooks and your posterity with fish-hooks Look as the great men of the World are wont to swear upon their honour when they would give us the greatest assurance of what they will do because such Oath are look't upon as most sacred and inviolable so the great God swears by his holiness because his holiness is his greatest Honour and because hee hath no greater nor no better nor no choicer nor no sweeter nor no preciouser things to swear by let mee saith God bee never owned as a God nor honoured as a God nor trusted as a God nor feared as a God nor valued as a God if I do not Inviolably keep my promises and make good my threatings having sworn thereunto by my Holiness Now you know the Scripture saith when God could swear by no greater hee sware by himself Heb. 6.13 so I may say when God could swear by no greater Attribute by no greater Excellency hee swears by his Holiness that being the top and the glory of all Look as all the wisdome of the creatures compar'd with the wisdome of God is but folly and as all the goodness of the creatures compared with the goodness of God is but naughtiness and as all the fulnesse of the creature compared with the fulnesse of God is but emptiness and as all the power of the creature compared with the power of God is but weaknesse and as all the righteousnesse of the creature compared with the righteousnesse of God is but unrighteousnesse So all the holinesse of the creature compared with the holinesse of God is but unholinesse mans highest purity is but impurity when 't is compared to the purity of God yea the very holinesse of Angels compared with the holinesse of God is chargeable with folly Job 4.18 That fulnesse of holinesse that is in Angels or Saints is only the fulnesse of the Vessel but that fulnesse of holinesse that is in God is the fulnesse of the Fountain that fulnesse of holinesse that is in Angels or Saints is but the fulnesse of the Branches but that fulnesse of holinesse that is in God is the fulnesse of the Root that fulnesse of holinesse that is in Angels or Saints is but the fulnesse of Sufficiency but that fulnesse of holinesse that is in God is the fulnesse of redundancy But Fifthly As God is infinitely holy transcendently holy superlatively holy so God is originally radically and fundamentally holy the Divine Nature is the root original and spring of all holinesse and purity all that holinesse that is in Angels and men flows from God as the streams from the Fountain as the beams from the Sun as the branches from the Root and as the effect from the Cause There is no holinesse to be had but from the Holy One hee is the Author and Original of all the holinesse that