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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
PRESUMPTION running into DESPAIR. › They said.PRESVMPTION running into DESPAIRE. › They said.
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They said.
We have described the Persons, What they were: let us see what they did. They said: They open their lips to confess the invincible and inevitable power of Christ. whence derive we two observations.
We haue described the Persons, What they were: let vs see what they did. They said: They open their lips to confesse the invincible and inevitable power of Christ. whence derive we two obseruations.
1. The sense of present misery takes away Atheism. Before their mouths were either shut by silence, or opened by blasphemies; possessed either with a dumb or a roaring devil. God was not in all their thoughts: or 1if in their thoughts, not in their lips: or if in their lips, but to his dishonour; not named but in their oaths. Now lo, they speak, and make a desperate acknowledgement of that power, they erst derided. The day of judgment, when it comes, shall find no Atheist. What those degenerate creatures would not believe, they shall see: they would not acknowledge their maker, they shall find their Judge: and cry to the mountains, Fall one us, &c.
1. The sense of present miserie takes away Atheisme. Before their mouthes were either shut by silence, or opened by blasphemies; possessed either with a dumbe or a roring deuill. God was not in all their thoughtes: or