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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
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.
Of him that sitteth.
Christ now sits in glory. Whiles he was on earth ⟨p. 47⟩[…] ⟨p. 48⟩[…] ⟨p. 49⟩how little rested he! He dearly earned that voice, before he heard it; Sit thou at my right hand: now behold he sits. Good rest is the reward of good labour: the week of our days spent, we shall have an eternal Sabbath; enter into Gods rest; Apoc. 14. rest from our labours. Hast thou laboured, thou shalt have ease: hast 1thou travelled in the ways of grace, thou shalt sit on the seat of glory.
Christ now sittes in glory. Whiles he was on earth ⟨p. 47⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 48⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 49⟩how little rested he! He dearly earned that voice, before he heard it; Sitte thou at my right hand: now behold he sittes. Good rest is the reward of good labour: the weeke of our dayes spent, we shall haue an eternall Sabboth; enter into Gods rest;