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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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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 mAdoniah heard the trumpets sounding at Solomons coronation, he quaked and fled to the horns of the Altar. When the ungodly shall hear the Archangels Trump proclaiming the coronation of Christ, they have no Sanctuary, (they never loved it in all their lives) but fly to the rocks and mountains.
Whiles guilt and feare consult of refuge, how vaine shifts they imagine! Adam would hide his disobedience in the bushes: Saul his rebellion in the crowd of the people. So the hood-wink'd foole seeing no body, thinkes no body sees him. Helplesse euasions! when mAdoniah heard the trumpets sounding at Salomons coronation, he quaked and fled to the hornes of the Altar. When the vngodly shall heare the Archangels Trumpe proclaiming the coronation of Christ, they haue no Sanctuarie, (they neuer loued it in all their liues) but flie to the rockes and mountaines.
The grave is a dark and privative place: yet as a prisoner that comes out of a sordid and stinking dungeon, into the open air for his trial in a desperate cause, had rather keep the prison still. So these reprobates newly raised from the earth, cry to it to receive them again; glad to remain (though not on the face of it with pleasure) in the bowels of it with rottenness and solitude; rather then in the open light to come before the judgement seat of Christ. The grave is a drown-bed to hell. ⟨p. 40⟩