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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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It is a question much disputed, whether besides the protection of Angels in common, every particular man have one particular Angel for his Guardian. I find many of the Fathers allotting every one a particular Angel. Isidor. Singulae Gentes praepositos Angelos habere creduntur: imo omnes homines Angelos suos. Origen, Basil, Hierome, Chrysostom, Theophylact, Gregory Nyssen, Primasius, Justin Martyr, Augustin, most of the Schoolmen, and some Protestant Divines: all conclude that every man from his birth, or especially from his Baptism, hath a particular Angel. I will not dispute it, yet I must doubt it; because I see no clear ground in the Scriptures to prove it. The two chief places cited are these, Math. 18. 10. Despise not these little ones, for their Angels behold the face of my Father in heaven. This place Caietan and others expound, not that every little one hath a peculiar guardant Angel, but Omnes omnibus; that all the Angels take care of all Gods little ones. As the Scriptures construe it self; hAll the Angels rejoice at the conversion of one sinner. The other place is, Acts 12. 15. Peter being unexpectedly delivered out of prison, came to Mary's house where the Saints were gathered together. Rhoda hearing his voice, ran in, and told them how Peter stood at the gate. They said to her, Thou art mad: but when she constantly affirmed it, they said, It is his Angel. I answer that the Disciples amazed at the strange report, spake they knew not what. On the like reason, because Peter transported in beholding Christ transfigured, said, iLet us build here three Tabernacles: some might infer that Saints departed dwell in Tabernacles. Because the two sons of Zebedee desired to ksit one at Christs right hand, the other on his left in his kingdom; they might have concluded that Christ ⟨p. 48⟩was to be a temporal King. Or because the Disciples seeing Jesus walking on the Sea, in their troubled minds, said l