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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. › To what.PRESVMPTION running into DESPAIRE. › To what.
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When therefore some sudden peril hath threatened thee with terror, note seriously how thou art affected. Though the danger came unlooked for, let it not pass unthought of: but as thou blessest God for delivery, so examine the good or ill disposednesse of thine own heart. If thou find thy self courageous and heavenly minded, on thy confidence in God; take at once assurance of thy faith and Gods mercy. He that now stood by thee, will never leave thee. If otherwise, lament thy sins which darken thy souls way to the mercy-seat; and beseech Jesus Christ to store thy heart with better comforts. If thy treasure be in heaven, ⟨p. 39⟩and thy soul hath been used to travel often thither; when danger comes, it knows the way so well, that it cannot miss it.
When therefore some sudden perill hath threatned thee with terrour, note seriously how thou art affected. Though the danger came vnlook'd for, let it not passe vnthought of: but as thou blessest God for deliuery, so examine the good or ill disposednesse of thine owne heart. If thou find thy selfe couragious and heauenly minded, on thy confidence in God; take at once assurance of thy faith and Gods mercie. Hee that nowe stood by thee, will neuer leaue thee. If otherwise, lament thy sinnes which darken thy soules way to the mercie-seate; and beseech Iesus Christ to store thy heart with better comforts. If thy treasure be in heauen, ⟨p. 39⟩and thy soule hath beene vsed to trauell often thither; when danger comes, it knowes the way so well, that it cannot misse it.
2. Affirmatively this presents a soul amazed with fear and folly. They call to the Mountains, that can neither hear nor answer. When the world was destroyed with water, men climbed up to the tops of the Mountains: when it shall be dissolved with fire, they will desire the holes of the rocks, and to lie under the hills. The mountains are but swellings of the earth, and the rocks are surd things; that have no ears: can they hear? or if they hear, can they answer? or if they answer, can they save? when the graves must vomit up their dead, shall the rocks conceal the living? Those five Kings could not be hid in the cave of