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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

Judge the world in righttousness My Lords and Gentlemen give me leave to tell you Tennes the son of Cyrnus who was worshipped as a god was so strict and exact in Judgement that he caused an Ax to be held over the witnesses heads to execute them out of hand if they were taken with falshood and from thence was the Proverb Tenedia bipennis that that Judge to whom you must be responsible is no ignorant Judge nor no covetous Judge nor no partial Judge nor no fearful Judge nor no doating Judge nor no trifling Judge though such there may be in the world but he is an omniscient Judge an omnipotent Judge an impartial Judge a holy Judge a couragious Judge a serious Judge a severe Judge an unbiassed Judge a righteous Iudge and a resolute Iudge Alas Sirs it is not your scarlet Gowns nor your Titles of honour nor your great estates nor your interest in Princes nor your noble relations nor your applause among men that will stand you in stead when you shall stand before that Iudge that is a consuming fire Heb. 12. ult Well Gentlemen remember this there is never a professing Iudge nor Iust●ce in the world that will be able at last to give up their accounts with joy and to stand in judgement when the Lamb shall sit upon his Throne but such as have made it their great businesse to take the spirit of the Lord for their guide and to set up the glory of the Lord as their great end and to make the Word of the Lord their principal Rule and to eye the example of the Lord as their choicest and chiefest pattern and therefore it is much to be feared that the numher of such Iudges and Iustices that will be able to stand before the Iudge of all the world will be but few But Seventhly As you must do justice and judgement exactly so you must do justice to others as you would have others do justice to you For Judges and Justices to do as they would be done by is the Royal Law the golden Rule and the Standard of equity Judges and Justices should think of others as they would have others think of them and speak of others as they would have others speak of them and do to others as they would have others do to them Mat. 7.12 Severus the Emperour had this Scripture often in his mouth and whensoever he punished any of his souldiers for offering of injuries to others he still commanded this Scripture to be proclaimed by the Cryer Whatever by the light of nature or by the light of conscience or by the light of Scripture a Judge a Justice would have another do to him the same must he do to another In all just things for so this Law of Christ is only to be understood we must do to others as we would have others do to us as we would have others carry it equally justly and righteously towards us so we must carry it equally justly and righteously towards others and as we would not have others to wrong us in our names estates rights liberties lives so we must not wrong others in their names estates rights liberties lives c. This Law of Christ is the summe of all righteousnesse it is the foundation of all Justice and Equity Self-love doth so commonly blind the sons of men that to judge righteously they must change the person they must put themselves in others room All Princes Judges Justices Parents Masters Subjects Servants Children should so act in their relations as they would have others act in the correlation All injustice will be repaid one time or another and therefore men had need be just and do to others as they would have others do to them I have read of a Citizen of Comun in the Dukedom of Farrara who being cast into prison upon suspit●on of murder his wife could get no promise of his deliverance unl●sse she would give the Captain whose prisoner he was two hundred Ducats and yield her body to his pleasure which with the consent of her husband she did but after the Captain had his desire he notwithstanding put him to death The Duke Gonzala hearing of it commanded the Captain to restore the two hundred Ducats to the widow with an addition of seven hundred Crowns then he enjoyned him to marry her presently and lastly before he could enjoy his new wife the Duke caused him to be hanged for his treachery and injustice Sometimes in this life injustice is repaid upon the heads of unjust Judges My Lords and Gentlemen before I close up this head give me leave heartily to recommend to your Justice those wrongs and injuries which more immed●ately strike at the honour and glory of the great God God hath put his name upon you Psalm 82.6 I said that ye are gods yet it must be granted that you are gods in a smaller letter mortal gods gods that must die like m●n all the sons of Ish are sons of Adam And as God hath put his name upon you so he hath made you his Vice-Royes 2 Chron. 19 6. Ye judge not for your selves but for the Lord. Rom. 13.2 Exod. 16.7 8. 1 Sam. 8.7 And therefore God takes all affronts that are done to you as done to himself as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the margin together And God hath provided for your honour among men Exod. 20.28 Thou shalt not revile the gods Rom. 13.7 Josh 4.14 i. e. the Magistrates nor curse the Ruler of thy people I have read of Fabius Maximus who highly reverenced and honoured his own son being Consul this Heathen will one day rise up in judgement against all such that scorn to give to Magistrates that honour that by the fifth Commandment is due unto them 2 Pet. 2.9 10. 1 Sam. 10.2 Iude 8.2 1 Sam. 8.7 And God is very severe in revenging the wrongs that are done to you He interprets all the injuries that are done to you as done to himself And why then will you not revenge the wrongs and injuries that are done to the great God Give me leave Gentlemen in the behalf of the great God a little to expostulate with you Shall the least dishonourable word that is spoken against an earthly Prince be severely punished and shall all those horrid and hellish blasphemies by which the Prince of the Kings of the earth is dishonoured and reproached all the Nation over passe unobserved Rev. 1.5 Shall all affronts that are offered to Embassadors be deeply resented and justly censured as high indignities done to the Prince that employed them And shall the Embassadors of the great God I mean such as are called commissionated spirited gifted and graced for that high office by God himself be scorned defamed injured reviled and on all hands evilly intreated and yet no man say Why do you thus wickedly 2 Chron. 36.15 ult to provoke the great God to your own destruction Shall it be

take any real pleasure delight content and satisfaction in God but those that are holy the worldling takes pleasure and delight in his baggs and the ambitious man in his honours and the voluptuous man in his pleasures and the malicious man in his revenge and the envious man in the harms that befalls others and the drunkard in his cups and the adulterer in his harlots and the gamster in his shifts and tricks and the player in his fopperies fooleries and mockeries 't is only the holy man that takes pleasure and delight in God Job 22.25 26. Cant. 2.3 cap. 7.6 Psal 33.21 Psal 48.11 Isa 41.16 Joel 2.23 Hab. 3.18 Zech. 10.7 as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the margent together to delight and take pleasure in God is a work too high too hard too spiritual and too noble for any but holy persons there are none headed nor hearted nor spirited nor anointed nor principled for taking Pleasure in God but holy ones Abraham did not take more pleasure in his Isaac nor Jacob did not take more delight in his Joseph nor David did not take more satisfaction in his Absalom nor Jonah did not take more content in his Gourd than a holy man when hee is himself takes pleasure delight satisfaction and content in God and therefore how can God but take pleasure and delight in him Shall the Childe take delight in the Father and shall not the Father delight again in the Childe and shall the Wife take pleasure and satisfaction in the Husband and shall not the Husband take pleasure and satisfaction again in her Look as God hates them that hate him so hee takes pleasure in them that take pleasure in him now what a singular cordial and comfort is this to all Gods holy ones that God takes singular pleasure delight satisfaction and content in them what though the world hate you and scorn you and despise you and prefer every Barabas and Judas before you yet cheer up your spirits with this cordial and warm your hearts at this fire that God takes singular pleasure and delight in you what cares the Childe though others flight him so long as his Father at home delights in him and what cares the Wife though others despise her as long as her Husband at home honours her and takes pleasure in her and what cares the Innocent person though the Malefactor at the Bar rails upon him as long as the Judge upon the Bench acquits him and what should a Christian care though all the world should abhor him as long as the Lord takes singular pleasure and delight in him But Thirdly If thou art a holy person if thou hast that real holiness without which there is no happiness then know for thy comfort that thy real holiness is a substantial evidence of thy real union with Christ all true holiness is the immediate fruit of our real union with Christ Joh. 17.20 21. ch 15.5 Eph. 4.16 1 Pet. 2.4 5 6. Eph. 5.25 to the end upon our union with Christ Christ is made not only Wisdome Righteousness and Redemption but hee is also made Sanctification to us 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ and a holy person are one as Father and Son are one and they are one as the Vine and the Branches are one and they are one as Head and Members are one and they are one as the Foundation and the Building are one and they are one as Husband and Wife are one and that which speaks out their oneness their union is their holiness Hee that is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 Hee that is ingrafted into Christ hee that is initiated into Christ hee that is united unto Christ hee is a new creature hee hath a new head a new heart a new lip a new life a new spirit new principles and new ends hee can truly say with that convert Ego non sum ego I am not the man that I was of a Lion holiness hath made mee a Lamb of a Wolf holiness hath made mee a Sheep of a Raven holiness hath made mee a Dove c. And what doth all this speak out but a mans being in Christ but a mans union with Christ renovation speaks out union and union speaks out renovation renewing by Christ speaks out the souls in-being in Christ and the souls in-being in Christ speaks out the souls renewing by Christ Look as there could be no depravation but from our union with the first Adam so there can be no renovation but through our union with the second Adam Col. 3.10 But Fourthly If thou art a holy person if thou hast that real holinesse without which there is no happinesse then know sort by comfort Psa 34.12 13 14. that God will certainly bless all thy blessings to thee and hee will bless every estate and condition to thee most men have many blessings but 't is only the holy man that hath his blessings blest unto him Gen. 22.17 In blessing I will bless thee saith God to holy Abraham i. e. I will bless thy blessings to thee The holy person is in Covenant with a holy God and therefore all the blessings of the Covenant are his Psa 50.5 Psa 105.42 Ezek. 36.25 26. Zach. 3.3 4. Psal 84.11 Pro. 12.21 c. all they that partake of the Holiness of the Covenant they shall certainly partake of the blessings of the Covenant Now this is one of the blessings of the Covenant that all our blessings shall bee blest unto us O Christian all thy right hand blessings shall be blest unto thee and all thy left hand blessings shall be blest unto thee all the blessings of the upper springs shall be blest unto thee A little blest is better than a world enjoyed If thou art a holy man the God of all mercies and all the mercies of God the God of all comforts and all the comforts of God are thine and what wouldest thou have more and all the blessings of the lower springs shall be blest unto thee all the blessings of the Throne shall be blest unto thee and all the blessings of the foot-stool shall be blest unto thee And as all thy blessings shall bee blest unto thee so every estate and every condition shall be blest unto thee thou shalt be blest in health and blest in sickness blest in strength and blest in weakness blest in wealth and blest in want blest in honour and blest in dishonour blest in life and blest in death thou shalt be blest at home and blest abroad blest at board and blest at bed blest lying down and blest rising up blest in liberty and blest in bonds Look as all the blessings of a wicked man are curst unto him and as all the relations of a wicked man are curst unto him Prov. 3.33 Mal. 2.1 2 3. Levit. 26. Deut. 28. and as all estates and conditions that are incident to a wicked man are curst unto him so

except there be sound repentance on their sides and pardoning mercy on Gods they are so abominable debauched and wicked But Eightly When God hath separated and severed his people from the corrupt and sinful customes and manners of the world and brought them into fellowship with himself and into Gospel-Communion with one another O then in a special manner hee calls aloud upon them to be holy Levit. 20.23 24 26. And yee shall not walk in the manners of the Nation which I cast out before you for they committed all these things and therefore I abhorred them But I have said unto you ye shall inherit their Land and I will give it unto you to possess it a Land that floweth with milk and hony I am the Lord your God which have separated you from other people And yee shall be holy unto mee for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that yee should bee mine Distinguishing mercies should breed and nourish distinguishing qualities O Sirs 't is not for you who are separated and severed from the world by God to be proud and carnal and formal and distrustful and hypocritical and earthly and froward c. as the world is 't is not for you to deny your principles to debauch your consciences to change your notes to turn your coats to defile your souls to blot your names and to scandalize your profession O Sirs if God hath separated you and severed you from the world by a call from Heaven it highly concerns you not to think as the world thinks nor to speak as the world speaks nor to judge as the world judges nor to walk as the world walks nor to worship as the world worships but so to think speak judge walk and worship as may make most for the honour of God the glory of the Gospel and as best becomes those that have had the honour and the happiness of being separated and severed by God from the world But Ninthly When the day of the Lord draws neer and when wee look for the accomplishment of great things O then God calls aloud upon his people to bee holy 2 Pet. 3.10 11 12 13 14. But the day of the Lord will come as a Theif in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Element shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the works that are therein shall bee burnt up Seeing then that all these things shall bee desolved what manner of persons ought yee to bee in all holy conversation and godliness Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God wherein the Heavens being on fire shall bee desolved and the Element shall melt with fervent heat Never-the-less wee according to his promise look for a new Heaven and new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness Wherefore Beloved seeing that yee look for such things bee diligent that yee may bee found of him in peace without spot and blameless The neerer the day of Christ is to us and the more great and glorious things wee expect from God Isa 65.17 18 19 20. the more holy the more spotless and the more blameless wee must labour to bee I know there are many that look for new heavens and a new earth that is for a glorious Church-state here on earrh wherein shall dwell righteousness 't is certain that the highest Heavens where God keeps his Royal Court was never without righteousness righteousness hath been alwaies the habitation of his Throne righteousness hath alwaies dwelt in the highest Heavens and indeed Heaven would bee no Heaven yea it would rather hee a Hell than a Heaven if righteousness did not alwaies dwell there neither can the highest Heaven ever wax old neither were they ever made of Earth or Brittle mouldering matter the Pallace of the great King will bee alwaies new fresh shining and gloriousness but indeed the Earth in all Ages have been full of injustice unrighteousness wickedness tyranny cruelty and oppression so that righteousness seems to have been banished out of the world ever since Adam fell from his primitive righteousness and holiness O! but there is a glorious day a coming wherein the Earth shall bee full of righteousness and holiness as I have formerly proved at large from other Scriptures Now Christians the more great and glorious things you expect from God as the downfall of Antichrist the conversion of the Jews the conquest of the nations to Christ the breaking off of all yo●ks the new Jerusalems coming down from above the extraordinary pouring out of the spirit and a more general union among all Saints the more holy yea the more eminently holy in all your waies and actings it becomes you to bee many there bee that will talke high and speak big words and tell you stories of great things that they expect and look for in these daies which are the last of the last times and yet if you look into their lives you shall finde them loose and vain and what not O! that these would for ever remember that the more great and glorious things wee expect and look for from God the more holiness God expects and looks for from us and therefore as wee would not have God fail our expectation let not us frustrate his and the higher your expectation rises the higher alwaies let your holiness rise Eccle. 12 2 3 4 5. for there is nothing that will hasten that desirable day of glory upon the world like this But Tenthly and lastly When you draw neer your end when there are but a few steps between you and the Grave between you and Eternity when you have but a little time to live when death stands at your backs and treads on your heels and knocks at your doors when the eyes begin to grow dark when the grinders begin to cease when the keepers of the house the hands and the arms begin to tremble and when the strong men the legs and thighs begin to bow and stagger and totter as being too weak to bear the bodies burden O then what a holy people should you bee this very consideration had a very great influence upon that great Apostles spirit in that 2 Pet. 1.12 13 14 15. Wherefore I will not bee negligent to put you alwaies in remembrance of these things though yee know them and bee established in the present truth Yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To rouse you up The Greek word signifies to awaken rouse and raise such as are a sleep There is a sinful slugishness and drousiness that often hangs upon the best of men and therefore they stand in much need of being awakned and roused up to look after their spiritual and eternal concernments to stir you up by putting you in remembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ shewed me Moreover I will endeavour that you