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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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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 lMakkedah from Joshua; and shall any cave hide from Jesus?
2. Affirmatiuely this presents a soule amazed with feare and follie. They call to the Mountaines, that can neither heare nor answere. When the world was destroyed with water, men climbed vp to the tops of the Mountaines: when it shall be dissolued with fire, they will desire the holes of the rockes, and to lie vnder the hils. The mountaines are but swellings of the earth, and the rockes are surd things; that haue no eares: can they heare? or if they heare, can they answere? or if they answere, can they saue? when the graues must vomite vp their dead, shall the rockes conceale the liuing? Those fiue Kings could not be hid in the caue of lMakkedah from Ioshua; and shall any caue hide from Iesus?
Whiles guilt and fear consult of refuge, how vain shifts they imagine! Adam would hide his disobedience in the bushes: Saul his rebellion in the crowd of the people. So the hood-winked fool seeing no body, thinks no body sees him. Helpless evasions! when