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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
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Custom in sin obstupefies a •sense: and still like that Romaine Milo, his strength increasing with his burden: he that first carried sin a wanton Calf, can at last bear it a goring Ox▪ Men lock up their iniquities, as the usurer his money, in a Chest; where the light of reproof may not find them out. They pack all their iniquities upon H•, that will bear them for none but His. Or reserve them to an hours repentance; setting them a day of cancelling, but they break it: as if their last breath could dispel and scatter them all into air. But alas, sins then are found heaviest of all: and here like malefactors pressing to death, they cry out for more weight, the accession of rocks and mountains to dispatch them▪ Loath they are to come before the Judge, therefore would be pressed ⟨p. 44⟩to death by these ponderous and massy creatures.
Custome in sinne obstupefies a •sense: and still like that Romaine Milo, his strength e•creasing with his burden: he that first carried sinne a wanton Calfe, can at last beare it a goaring Oxe▪ Menlocke vp their iniquities, as the vsurer his money, in a Chest; where the light of reproofe may not finde them out. They packe all their iniquities vpon H•, that will beare them for none but His. Or reserue them to an houres repentance; setting them a day of cancelling, but they breake it: as if their last breath could dispell and scatter them all into ayre. But alas, sinnes then are found heauiest of all: and here like malefactors pressing to death, they cry out for more waight, the accession of rockes and mountaines to dispatch them▪ Loath they are to come before the Iudge, therefore would be pressed ⟨p. 44⟩to death by these ponderous and massy creatures.