PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks — Volume 4
Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680 · 287,548 words · 250 reading sections
Section 241
2. The second position is this. That holiness rises by degrees; it rises gradually in the sotds of the saints. Though the first Adam was made a man, a holy man, yea, a man perfectly holy, and all at once, yet the holi- ness of all that is interested in the second Adam rises by degrees, i It is true, in the creation of …
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[10.] Tenthly and lastly. The least degree of holiness is a sure pledge and pawn of greater degrees of holiness that in time thou shalt attain to. The tallest oak was once an acorn ; the deepest doctor was once in his horn-book ; and the greatest giant was once a child. Thy spark in time shall be blowed up into a flame…
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HeB. XII. 14.] AND BEAUTY OF HOLINESS. 433 faithful. Now he is very fearful of offending God, and very careful of pleasing God, and very circumspect and watchful in his walking with God, as if he were a man fully resolved instantly to start from holiness to happiness ; but now, if you please to look on this man at ano…
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6. The sixth position is this, There will come a time wlien in this world holiness shall he 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. xxx. 5, 6, 8, ' The Lord thy God will bring thee into thine own land, and the L…
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[2.] Secondly, When God sheivs singular mercy to his people, and when he doth great things for his people, then he expects and looks that his people should be a holy people, and then he calls loudest for holiness ; Exod. xix. 3-5, ' And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, T…
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Orpah did with Kuth, and then take his leave of God, as Orpah did of her mother, Kuth i. 10-15 ; but he resolves, whatever comes on it, that he will walk constantly, resolutely, and perpetually before God, or before the face of the Lord. Now walking before the face of the Lord doth imply a very exact, circumspect, accu…
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440 THE NECESSITY, EXCELLENCY, RARITY, [Heb. XII. 14. gospel to he despised, profession to be abhorred, the saints to be re- viled, and young comers-on to be discouraaed, and the ungodly in their wickedness to be hardened and confirmed; oh, this is a time tvherein God calls aloud upon his people to be holy I Oh, now G…
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442 THE NECESSITY, EXCELLENCY, RARITY, [HeB. XII. 14. amazing, and astonishing judgments of God upon Antichrist, that they shall repent, worship him, and give glory to him. _ 0 sirs ! when God strikes slaves, sons should tremble. Great judgments upon sinners speaks out a great deal of the justice and holiness of God ;…
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[9.] Ninthly, When the day of the Lm-d draws near, and when we look for the accomplishment of great things, oh, then, God calls aloud upon his people to be holy : 2 Pet. iii. 10-14, ' But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements…
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0 sirs ! shall nature do more than grace ? shall morality excel real piety ? It was the glorious commendation of the church of Thyatira that her last works were more than her first, Rev, ii. 19, ' I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy work, and the last to be more than the fir…
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