"Without Holiness No one Will See The LORD."

Without holiness
(Thomas Brooks, "The Crown and Glory of Christianity; 
or, HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness", 1662) 

"Without holiness no one will 
see the LORD." Hebrews 12:14 

To 'see' implies both vision and fruition. 
Without holiness, no man--
be he high or low, noble or ignoble, 
rich or poor, etc., shall ever come 
to a blessed acquaintance with GOD 
here, or to a glorious fruition and 
enjoyment of GOD hereafter. 

Oh, 
  how great a misery, 
  how great a punishment, 
  how great an affliction, 
  how great a trouble and torment, 
  how great a tribulation, 
  how great a Hell--
will it be for all unholy people 
to be forever and ever banished 
the court of Heaven, and to be shut 
out from the presence of the LORD, 
and from the glory of HIS power--
and to be everlastingly confined 
to the prison of Hell, and to 
the society and company of that 
damned crew who will be still 
a-cursing and a-blaspheming GOD, 
and adding to one another's torments!

Ah, friends! without holiness all is lost . . . 
  your soul is lost, 
  CHRIST is lost, 
  GOD is lost, 
  Heaven is lost,
  glory is lost! 
What are all other losses, 
compared to these losses? 

Well, sirs, if none of these arguments 
can prevail with you to labor after holiness, 
I must conclude . . .
  that divine justice has hardened you,
  that satan has blinded you,
  that your lusts have besotted you,
  that this world has bewitched you,
and that it would have been ten 
thousand thousand times better 
for you, to have never been born, 
than . . .
  to live without holiness,
  and to die without holiness, 
  and to be everlastingly 
damned for lack of holiness!

"Without holiness no one will 
see the LORD." Hebrews 12:14

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