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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Consider this, dye that forget God, lest you be torn in pieces when there is none to deliver you. You may forget him during your short pleasure, you shall remember him for ever in torture. Proceed to espeak of him wickedly, and like enemies to take his Name in vain; you shall one day fall low before his footstool, not with a voluntary but enforced reverence. You that have denied God on earth, the first voice that shall come from your lips, shall be a hopeless acknowledgement of his majesty.
Consider this, dye that forget God, lest you be torne in pieces when there is none to deliuer you. You may forget him during your short pleasure, you shall remember him for euer in torture. Proceed to espeake of him wickedly, and like enemies to take his Name in vaine; you shall one day fall low before his footestoole, not with a voluntary but enforced reuerence. You that haue denied God on earth, the first voice that shall come from your lips, shall be a hopelesse acknowledgment of his maiestie.
2. The saying that comes from them is desperate: whence note, that in Gods just punishment Desperation is the reward of Presumption. They that erst feared two 1