(Thomas Brooks, "The Crown and Glory of Christianity,
or, HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness", 1662)"Man, who is vile and corrupt,
who drinks up evil like water!"
Job 15:16
A wicked man is a sin-lover;
he is a sin-maker, he lives
in sin upon choice.
All profane people . . .
give up themselves to
wickedness, wallow in all ungodliness,
delight themselves in all manner of filthiness,
commit wickedness with greediness,
draw iniquity and sin with cords of vanity,
weary themselves to commit iniquity, and
are so desperately set upon wickedness,
that neither the rod of GOD,
the lashes and checks of their
own consciences, nor the flashes
of Hell upon their souls--
can stop them.
They are resolved that
they will gratify their lusts--
though they damn their souls;
that they will live wickedly--
though they perish eternally!
By custom in sin, they have
destroyed all conscience
of sin, and contracted such
desperate hardness upon
their own hearts, as neither . . .
GOD'S smiles--nor frowns,
GOD'S promises--nor threatenings,
life--nor death,
Heaven--nor Hell,
can possibly hinder them!
The hearts and ways of wicked
men are full of Hells; and therefore
to fill Heaven with such, would be
to fill Heaven with Hells!
Certainly GOD will shut the gates
of glory upon such workers of
iniquity. These souls are . . .sadly abandoned by GOD, and
woefully blinded by satan, and
fully ripened for ruin.
"All will be damned who have
not believed the truth, but have
delighted in wickedness."
2 Thessalonians 2:12
"Unless you are converted . . .
you will never enter the kingdom
of Heaven." Matthew 18:3
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