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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

service of God and to detract from the excellency and glory of it The Kings and Princes of this world have most severely punisht such who by their base mixtures have imbased their coyne and there is a day a coming wherein the King of Kings will most severely punish all such who have imbased his worship and service by mixing their Romish traditions with his holy institutions Rev. 22.18 Rev. 22.18 For I testifie unto every man that heareth the words of the prophesie of this booke if any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke And no wonder for what horrible pride presumption stoutness and baseness of spirit is it in foolish man to be so bold with the great God as to dare to mix any thing of his own with his worship and service which according to divine institution is so perfect and compleat God will never bare it to see men lay their dirt upon his gold and to put their Raggs upon his Royal Robes Ah Christians Christians evidence your holiness by standing up for holy ordinances and pure worship in opposition to all mixtures whatsoever oh don 't you touch a poluted worship don't you plead and contend for a poluted worship but let Baal plead for Baal and though all the world should wander after the Beast yet don't you wander and though every fore-head should have the mark of the Beast upon it yet doe you abhor his mark and what ever else it be that do's but smell and savour of the Beast It is observable that in Kings and Princes Courts children fools and the rude Rabble are much taken with fine pictures and rich shews and glistering gaudy cloaths c. but such as are wise serious grave Statesmen they mind not they regard not such poor things they look upon those things as things that are much below the nobleness and the greatness of their spirits who have honorable objects and the great and weighty affaires of the State to busie themselves about so my Brethren though the children the fools and the Rabble of the world are much affected and taken with such polutions and mixtures as makes up a glorious pompious worship yet you that have a spirit of holiness and principles of holiness in you O how should you slight such things and pass by such things as things below you as things not worthy of you who have a holy God a holy Christ a holy Gospel and a holy worship to busie your thoughts your minds your heads and your hearts about But Fifthly Evidence the truth and reality of your holiness by bewailing and lamenting the loss of holiness Ah how is this crowne of holiness fallen from our heads Lam. 5.16 O the leanness of souls O the spiritual witherings and decayes in grace and holiness It s very uncomfortable to see the dayes grow shorter and to see friends grow behind-hand in the world that is to be found among many Christians this day Some complaine of the loss of Trade and others complaine of the loss of estate some complaine of the loss of c●edit and others complaine of the loss of friends but what are all these losses to the loss of holiness and yet how few be there that complaine of the loss of holiness holiness is fallen in our hearts in our families in our streets and in our Churches and yet how few are there to be found that laments the fall of holiness O Sirs will you lament such as are fallen from riches to poverty from honor into disgrace and from the highest pitch of prosperity to the lowest step of beggary and misery and will you not lament such who are fallen from the highest round to the lowest round in Jacobs Ladder O Sirs will you mourne over a decayed estate will you weep over decayed friends and will you sigh and sob over a decayed body and will you not much more lament and mourne over decayed souls c Ah how many have lost that love Rev. 2.4 5. that life that heat that zeale that readiness that forwardness and that resoluteness that once they had for God and godliness Some are fallen from their holiness by giving themselves elbow-roome to sin against the checks and lashes of conscience Psal 51. others are decayed in holiness by their secret resisting and smothering the gracious motions of the Spirit Acts 7.51 Some are fallen frpm holiness either by their neglect of precious means 1 Thes 5.20 or else by their heartless using of the meanes others are fallen from their holiness either by the allurements and enticements of a tempting world 2 Tim. 4.10 or else by the frownes and threatnings of a persecuting world Some are fallen from holiness by their non-exercise of grace and others are fallen from holiness by not discerning their first decayes in grace So that upon one account or another multitudes in these dayes are fallen from that holiness which was once their glory If you look into families there you shall finde Masters complaining that their servants are so careless foolish frothy light slight slothfull unfaithfull proud and lofty that they are not to be spoken to nor trusted and if you look againe into the same Families there you shall finde servants complaining that their Masters and Mistrisses are so exceeding froward pevish passionate worldly neglective of duties and careless of their souls that 't is even a hell to servants to live with them Now what speaks all these sad complaints but either a total want of holiness or else a very great decay of holiness And if you look among all other relations as husbands and wives parents and children Magistrates and people Ministers and Christians oh what sad divisions what fiery contentions and what feareful Jars are there to be found oh what slightings what revilings what under-valuings what heart-risings what heart-swellings and what heart-burnings are to be found amongst them and what doe all these things declare but that the Glory of God is departed from Israel and that holiness is fallen to a very low ebbe ah friends were there but more holiness among you there would be more union among you and more love among you and more sweetness and tenderness among you and more forbearance and patience among you Oh then you would never be snarling one at another nor biting one of another nor plotting one against another nor devouring one of another any more Again if you look among men whose parts are great whose gifts are high whose profession is glorious and whose expressions and notions are very seraphical ah what a little holiness will you finde O Sirs shall the men of this world vex and fret shall they weep and waile and shall their lamentation and mourning be like that of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo 2 Chron. 35.24 25. and that for the loss of a little wealth or for a punctilio of honor or a day of pleasure or

such whose lives give the lye to their Doctrine an ill liv'd preacher is the greatest destroyer of the souls of men he that preacheth well but lives ill does what he can to murder all his hearers at once there is no greater bar to holiness then Ministers leudness an unholy life marrs the soundest and the sweetest Doctrine Isa 9.16 The leaders of his people have caused them to e rt The sins of Teachers are the teachers of sins as the corrupt glosses so the leud practises of many Preachers makes many to stumble at that word and to shuff and chat and contest and kick against that word whereby they should be made holy and happy for ever a scandalous Minister is the greatest Pest the worse plague and the sorest mischief that can be to a people for his enormities his wickednesses will have the strongest influences upon the souls and lives of men to make them miserable in both worlds his falls will be the fall and ruine of many for people are more prone to live by examples then by precepts and to minde more what the Minister does then what he sayes and to eye more how he walks then how he talks It was said of One long since that was an excellent Preacher but a very bad liver that when he was in the Pulpit it was pitty he should ever come out of it he preach't so well and when he was out of it it was pitty that ever he should go into it he lived so ill Certainly 't is pitty that ever such should go into a Pulpit who preach well but live ill who have much of God in their mouths and much of the devil in their lives who have the earth as much at their fingers end as they have heaven at their tongues end who puts a loud lye upon the truth and whose lives puts their words to a blush who have much of heaven in their expressions and nothing of heaven in their conversations who have much holiness in their books but none in their bosoms and much holiness in their lips but none in their lives The leud lives of such persons causes people to slight and abhor the holy things of God 1 Sam. 2.17 yea their bad lives often raise doubts in their hearers hearts Rom. 2.22 Mal. 2. ult whether those things be true that they preach or no hearers will be ready to object and say if these things be true that the Minister says why does he not practice what he preaches why does he not do as well as say and with what face or confidence can he appear against that in the Pulpit which he countenanceth and patronizeth in his life who will credit that mans Doctrine who has Jacobs voice but Esaus hands who is a Saint yea an Angel in the Pulpit but a debauched sinner yea an incarnate devil out of it I have read of a woman who living in professed doubt of the God-head after better illumination and repentance did often protest Mr. Wards Sermons that the vicious life of a great Schollar under whose Ministry she did live did conjure up those damnable doubts in her soul There is nothing that brings holy truths so much into question as the unholy conversations of such preachers neither is there any thing that exposes a Ministers person and office to so much scorn and contempt as an unholy life Let a Minister be never so learned solid quaint elegant zealous judicious sententious c. yet if he be carnal covetous worldly vain and loose in his life and conversation his hearers will rather deride his doctrine then reforme by his doctrine they will rather contemn it then study how to profit by it therefore he said right that said Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum Vnto a teacher it 's no small disgrace When his own faults reprove him to his face There is nothing in all the world that is more powerful and prevalent to corrupt and mislead unholy men and to harden strengthen Ezek. 13.22 Jer. 23.15 and encourage them in ways of wickedness then the looseness of their lives whose office binds them to look to the salvation of their souls Mal. 2.8 Ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the Law When the preacher departs out of the way of holiness the people will quickly stumble at the Law of holiness when Ministers are as wandring stars no wonder if their hearers wander from all that 's good he whose life is not a standing reproof to sin will by his life encourage sinners more and more in a way of sin there is nothing that keeps men so off from a good opinion of holiness and from the love of holiness and the liking of holiness and from the pursuing after holiness then the unholy lives of their teachers and therefore as ever you would be holy flye their Tents and abandon their company and society Ministers whose lives are leud though their parts may be high are like a stone gutter that conveyeth water into a garden Augustine but receiveth no benefit it self thereby or like a Harpe that maketh others melody but heareth nothing it self they are like those Carpenters that built the Arke to save others and were drowned themselves or like Porters at great mens gates that let in others but lodge without themselves or like Sea-marks that rot themselves and yet give others warning to avoid Shipwrack or like Casars souldier that digged a fountain for Caesar and perished himself for want of water O! the folly and madness of such Ministers that give light to others and yet walk in darkness themselves that feast others souls but starve their own that rescue others from a devouring enemy and yet suffer themselves to be devoured that forewarne others of the horrible pit and yet fall into it themselves that give good counsel to others and yet can't take good counsel themselves that study and strive to bring others to heaven and yet have no minde to go thither themselves Certainly society and company with such upon choice can't but be a mighty hinderance to holiness he that is in good earnest resolved to be holy must resolutely be resolved to have nothing to do with such unholy persons And thus you see the several things that you must decline if ever you would be holy But Secondly As there are several things that you must decline if ever you would obtain that real holiness without which there is no happiness so there are several things that you are to do that you are to put in practice without which you will never be holy here nor happy hereafter Q. But what are they A. They are these First Greatly lament and mourn over thine own unholiness over thine own wickedness the first step to holiness is melting and mourning over a mans own unholiness go to thy closet and fall down before the most high and holy God and mourn bitterly over the unholiness of thy nature the

closet communion with God or not or enjoy the Lords Supper or not c. And O what inconstancy is to be found among many in these days many persons are onely constant in inconstancy now they are for Ordinances and anone they are against them now Ordinances are precious and glorious things and anone they are poor low things now they cry up this and that for glorious truths and anone they cry down the same things as dangerous and pernicious errors now they cry up Paul and cry down Apollo and anon they cry up Apollo and cry down Paul now they are for this form and anon they are for that now they are very zealous and anon they are very lukewarm now they are for worshipping of God according to rule and anon they are for worshipping of God according to the prescriptions of men now they have their gales of devotion and anon they are quite becalmed now they are full of life and anon they are very lumpish now they stand fast and anon they are wavering now they are confident all will be well and anon they give up all as lost now they will lay down their lives for Christ and anon they are afraid to own Christ c. Now what does this indifferency and inconstancy speak out but either a total want of holiness or else that holiness is at a very low ebb in these mens souls Now these eight Arguments do clearly evidence that many O that I could not say that most Christians have attained but to small measures and degrees of holiness But Secondly To provoke you to labor after higher degrees of holiness Consider that 't is possible for you to attain to greater measures of holiness then any yet you have reach't unto Though the work be hard yet 't is possible and what great things things won't men attempt upon the account of a possibility Now that 't is possible that you may attain to a greater perfection of holiness I shall evidence these five wayes First By many precious promises that are scattered up and down in the blessed Scriptures as that Job 17.9 The righteous shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger Or as the Hebrew has it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he shall add strength that is he shall go on from one degree of spiritual strength to another he shall go on from a lesser degree to a greater degree and from a lower degree to a higher degree of spiritual strength a holy man shall not onely have his spiritual strength maintained but encreased he shall not onely retain that spiritual strength he has but he shall be still a adding of strength to strength Psal 84.7 Me chaiil el chaiil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies vigor courage alacrity power success and an Army wherein usually most power is required and manifested They go from strength to strength or from power to power or as the word may be read from company to company or from Troop to Troop in allusion to the custome of the Jews when all the Males went up thrice a year to Jerusalem now when they went up to Jerusalem they went up with their flocks and in Troops now those that were lively active and strong they over took this company and that and this Troop and that and so they went on their power and strength increasing daily more and more till they appeared before God in Zion or look as the Bee goes from flower to flower to gather Honey so those that had a principle of grace and holiness in them they went from one good company to another from one Troop of Christians to another still gathering up heavenly honey as they went O Sirs there is no such way to perfect holiness as to be still a going on from duty to duty and from ordinance to ordinance from praying to hearing and from hearing to praying from reading to meditating from meditating to reading from publike duties to closet duties and from closet duties to publike duties c. Psal 92.12 13 14. The righteous shall flourish like the Palm-tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those that be planted in the house the Lord Ille non est bonus qui non vult esse molior shall flourish in the Courts of our God They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing The promise of flourishing is three times repeated in these three verses they shall flourish they shall flourish they shall flourish to note the more then ordinary flourishing estate of the Saints even in their old age I have read of an old Christian who being asked whether he grew in goodness or no answered I believe I do because the Lord has promised that his people shall bring forth fruit in old age Pliny writing of the Crocodile tells us that she grows to her dying day so Christians that are rooted in Christ and planted in the house of the Lord they will be still growing up in grace and holiness even to their dying day 'T is with real Christians as 't is with wine the older the better or as 't is with the Sun which shines most gloriously and amiably when 't is near seting Gracious souls are like the Laurel or the Bay-tree whose leaves are always green not onely in the Summer of youth but also in the Winter of old age Pliny The Palm-tree is always green it never loseth his leaves or fruit and the more it is loaded the deeper it is rooted and so it shall be with throughout Christians So in that Isa 46.3 4. God has promised to carry us on to old age Hearken unto me O house of Jacob and all the remnant of the house of Israel which are born by me from the belly which are carried from the womb And even to your old age I am he and even to hoar hairs will I carry you I have made and I will bear even I will carry and will deliver you That God that begins a work of Grace and Holiness in his peoples hearts that God will perfect and carry on that work Mothers and Nurses express their tender care love and delight by carrying their Babes in their arms till they can go alone but God surpasses them in his love care tenderness and divine fondness for he will carry them even to hoary hairs This word I that is Six times repeated in verse the fourth is doubtless of very great importance and signifies not onely Gods eternal Essence and that he will be ever like himself but also his unchangeableness in regard of us for whatever our thoughts may be concerning God yet we shall always find him one and the same he will be as good to his people at last as he was at first even to old age he will carry them So in that Prov. 4.18 But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day A

of holinesse that Christian is grown to Phil. 3.3 For wee are the c●rcumcision which worship God in the Spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh These Philippians were eminent in grace and holinesse as you may see in chap. 1. And they place no confidence in circumcision nor in any such outward performances or services but they were much in the exercise of grace and in worshipping of God in the Spirit and in rejoycing in the Person of Christ the Natures of Christ the Offices of Christ the Discoveries of Christ the Communications of Christ the glorious Operations of Christ the precious Promises of Christ and in the heart-warming and heart-chearing Blood of Christ Now to bee much exercised in the most internal spiritual and Evangelical duties of Religion argues a very great height of holinesse But 8thly The more spiritual internal intrinsecal Principles Motives and Considerations carries a person on in Religious duties and services the more holy that person is when a man is carried on in the duties of Religion from a sense of Divine Love Psa 119.1 2 3. 1 Joh. 1.1 2 3 4. Isa 38.16 17 19 20. Psa 63.1 2 3. or from a sense of the special presence of Christ with his Spirit or from a sense of the excellency and sweetnesse of communion and fellowship with God or from a sense of the graciousnesse and goodnesse of God towards him or from a sense of singular influences and incomes from God or from a sense of the choice and precious discoveries of God or from a sense of the beauty and glory of God c. This argues a very great measure of holinesse that such a person hath attained to The more the sweet looks of Christ the secret visits of Christ the private whispers of Christ the divine joggings of Christ the blessed Love-tokens of Christ and the holy kisses and glorious embraces of Christ doth incite and provoke a person to Religious duties the greater degrees of holinesse that person hath reacht to but now 't is an Argument that the streams of holinesse runs but low when external Motives and Considerations have the greatest hand in carrying a person on in Religious duties The more bare custome the eye of the creature the favour of the creature the example of the creature the applause of the creature the rewards of the creature or the keeping up of a mans parts or the keeping up of a mans name esteem and repute in the world doth influence a Christians heart to Religious duties the lesse holinesse that Christian hath Yea 't is considerable that outward Motives and natural Principles have carried many Heathens to do many great and glorious things in the world Did not Sisera do as great things as Gideon the difference did only lye here that the great things that Gideon did hee did from more spiritual Principles and raised Considerations than any Sisera was acted by And did not Diogenes trample under his feet the great and glorious things of this world as well as Moses Heb. 11. the difference did only lye in this that Moses trampled under his feet the gay and gallant things of this world from inward holy Principles and from high and glorious Considerations and Motives whereas Diogenes did only trample upon them from poor low Principles and from carnal and external Considerations I have read of one Cosmus Medices a rich Citizen of ●lorence that hee confessed to a neer friend of his that hee built so many Magnificent Structures and spent so much on Scholars and Libraries not for any love to Learning but to raise up to himself the Trophies of fame and renown And many of the Romans have done very great and glorious things for their Country but all from natural Principles and from carnal and external Motives and Considerations as for a great name a puff of honour a little applause c. and therefore their most glorious actions have been but shining sins God alwaies writes a nothing upon all those services Jer. ●2 23 wherein mens Principles and their Ends are naught and low 'T was a notable saying of Luther one work of a Christian saith hee is more precious then Heaven and Earth and if I might have my desire I would rather chuse the meanest work of a Country Christian or poor Maid than all the Victories and Triumphs of Alexander the Great and of Julius Caesar because whatsoever a Saint doth though it be never so small and mean yet it is great and glorious because he doth all in Faith and by the Word And saith the same Author further let our works be never so small servile womanish yet let but this title be added the Word of the Lord and then they will be all glorious yea such as shall remain to all eternity O Sirs all our works and services must bee wrought from God for God in God and according to God or else they will bee but splendida peccata glistering sins well the more spiritual and internal the principles motives and considerations are that carries a Christian on in religious duties the greater measure of holinesse hath that Christian arrived to But Ninthly The more solid precise exact and accurate a Christian is in religious duties and services the greater measure of holinesse that Christian hath attained to and the more any Christian grows in holinesse the more spiritual the more savory the more exact and accurate hee will grow in all his religious services and performances The more a Christians heart is endeared to religious duties the more his heart is affected with the heavenly nature of religious duties and the more easily the more holily the more freely the more spiritually he performs religious duties the more he is thriven grown in holiness A young Carpenter gives more blows makes more noise chips than an old experienced workman doth but the old experienced workman doth his work more solidly more exactly and more accurately than the young Carpenter doth So many young Christians that are but newly entred into the trade of Christianity and that are raised up but to a very small degree of sanctity these may multiply duties upon duties these may abound in religious performances these may bee much in adding of service to service but yet the aged and experienced Christian in grace and holinesse doth duties more solidly more spiritually more exactly and more accurately than the young Christian doth Wee must never judge of an eminency in holinesse by the number or multitude of our duties but by the seriousnesse the graciousnesse the solidnesse the spiritualnesse the holinesse the heavenlinesse and the accuratenesse of our hearts in duties A young Musitian may play longer and more quick and nimble upon an Instrument than an old Musitian can but yet the old Musitian playes with more art accuratenesse skill judgement and understanding than a young Musitian doth so young Christians in grace and holinesse may hold out

towards their desired Harbour And so 't is with a holy heart sometimes the gales of the spirit blow very fair and sweet very strong and powerful upon a gracious soul and then a Christian sails most sweetly most speedily and most successfully on in a way of Holiness and towards his Port of Happiness but anon the spirit is either resisted or grieved or neglected or quenched or vexed or disobeyed and then his gales his influences his breathings are slacked and then a poor Christian sails but very slow on in a way of holiness then hee doth but even creep towards the Harbour of everlasting blessedness Again no Saints have at all times alike the same external helps advantages and opportunities of being holy and of thriving in holiness It may bee they have not the word so clearly so powerfully so sweetly so faithfully nor so frequently preacht to them as formerly they have had or it may bee they have not other Ordinances so lively so purely so spiritually so evangelically dispenced to them as formerly they have had It may bee they have had stones instead of bread and bones instead of flesh and chaffe instead of wheat and muddy water instead of choice wine and then no wonder if they do not thrive in holiness as they did when God rained Mannah every day about their Tents and when they were fed with the best of the best that their Heavenly Fathers Table Wine-seller and House did afford When Children have not as good Food and as good Physick and as good lodging and as good looking to as they have formerly had no wonder if they thrive not as at other times And so 't is here look as no men have alwaies the same helps the same advantages the same opportunities to grow great and rich and high and honourable in the world that sometimes they have had so no Christian hath alwaies the same helps advantages and opportunities to grow rich and high in holiness as sometimes hee hath had It may bee hee hath not that communion and fellowship with the people of God that once hee had or if hee hath yet it may bee their communion is not so pure so holy so lively so heart-warming so soul-inriching as once it hath been or it may bee hee hath not as good counsel as formerly nor as good examples as formerly nor as good encouragement as hee hath formerly had to bee holy or it may bee their calling imployment and outward condition is so altered and changed from what once it was that they have not that time for closet Duties and to wait on publick Ordinances that once they had or it may bee bodily infirmities weaknesses diseases aches and ailements are so increased and multiplied upon them that they cannot make that improvement that once they did of those very advantages and opportunities that yet by a hand of grace is continued among them now these cases being incident to the people of God there is no reason to wonder if at some times Saints are more holy than they are at others and if at some seasons they shoot up more in holiness than they do at others The serious weighing of this Position may serve to prevent many fears and scruples many debates and disputes that often rise in the hearts of Christians upon the often ebbings and flowings of holiness in their souls The sixt Position is this There will come a time when in this world holiness shall bee more general and more eminent than ever it hath been since Adam fell in Paradise The Scripture speaks clearly roundly and fully to this Deut. 30.5 6 8. The Lord thy God will bring thee into thine own Land and the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord and do All His Commandements This gracious Promise was made to the Jews above two thousand years ago and yet to this very day it hath not been fulfilled and therefore there will certainly come a time wherein God will make it good Isa 11.6 The Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb c. and they shall not hurt c. for the Earth shall bee Full of the Knowledge of The Lord As the Waters Cover The Sea This glorious Promise hath not been made good to this day but there is a time a coming wherein it shall bee accomplished Isa 35.8 There shall bee a high-way and it shall bee called a way of Holiness THE UNCLEAN SHALL NOT PASSE OVER IT Isa 59.21 This is my Covenant my WORD AND MY SPIRIT SHALL NEVER DEPART from thee for ever Isa 60.21 Thy People shall bee ALL RIGHTEOUS Jer. 32.40 41. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good But I will put my fear into their hearts So Ezek. 36.23 to v. 30. Mal. 4.1 2. 2 Pet. 3.13 that they shall not depart from mee yea I will rejoyce over them to do them good and will plant them in this Land assuredly WITH MY WHOLE HEART AND WHOLE SOUL Now it is very observable that this great Promise must bee fulfilled when the Jews shall return and bee settled in their own Land And so the Prophet Ezekiel speaking of the glorious state of the Church in the last daies Ezek. 44.7 9. adds Thus saith the Lord no stranger uncircumcised in HEART shall enter into my Sanctuary Zeph. 3.13 The remnant of Israel SHALL NOT DO INIQUITY nor SPEAK LYES neither shall a DECEITFUL TONGUE bee found in their mouths Now the context clearly shews that these words relate to the glorious state of the Church on Earth and they have never yet received their accomplishment but shall in the last daies for hee is faithful that hath spoken it Zach. 14.20 21. Upon ALL SHALL BEE HOLINESSE TO THE LORD I have opened this Text pretty fully to you already in my former discourses on holiness and therefore shall pass it by now Rev. 21. verse the first See the English Annotations on these words and verse the last And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth and I saw the holy City New Jerusalem coming down from God out of HEAVEN Behold the Tabernacle of God is WITH MEN c. and there shall in no wise enter into it any th●ng that DEFILETH c. but they that are written in the Lambs Book I have formerly proved by several Arguments as divers of you knows that this chapter cannot be understood of Heaven but must necessarily and beyond all dispute bee understood of the glorious state of the Saints on Earth which they shall certainly enjoy in the last daies By all these Scriptures it is most evident that there will come a time when holiness shall bee more general and at a fuller height than ever yet it hath been since man fell from his Original holiness and therefore pray