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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
THE FOOL And His Sport. › Fools.THE FOOLE And His Sport. › Fooles.
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5. Sin, which hath another direful effect, of greater latitude; and comprehensive of all the rest. Divinam incitat iram. It provokes God to anger. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; what is the wrath of the king of kings. mFor our God is a consuming fire. If the fire of his anger be once throughly incensed, all the rivers in the South are not able to quench it: What pillar of the earth, or foundation of heaven can stand, ⟨p. 84⟩when he will wake them? He that in his wrath can open the jaws of earth to swallow thee, sluice out floods from the sea to drown thee, rain down fire from heaven to consume thee; Sodom, the old world, Corah, drunk of these wrathful vials. Or to go no further, he can set at jar the elements within thee, by whose peace thy spirits are held together: drown thee with a dropsy bred in thy own flesh: burn thee with a pestilence begotten in thy own blood: or bury thee in the earthly grave of thy own melancholy. Oh it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living God. It is then wretchedly done, thou Fool, to jest at sin that angers God, who is able to anger all the veins of thy heart for it.
5. Sinne, which hath another direfull effect, of greater latitude; and comprehensiue of all the rest. Diuinam incitat iram. It prouokes God to anger. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; what is the wrath of the king of kings. mFor our God is a consuming fire. If the fire of his anger be once throughly incensed, all the riuers in the South are not able to quench it: What piller of the earth, or foundation of heauen can stand, ⟨p. 84⟩when he will wake them? Hee that in his wrath can open the iawes of earth to swallow thee, sluce out flouds from the sea to drowne thee, raine downe fire from heauen to consume thee; Sodome, the old world, Corah, drunke of these wrathfull vialls. Or to goe no further, he can set at iarre the elements within thee, by whose peace thy spirits are held together: drowne thee with a dropsie bred in thy owne flesh: burne thee with a pestilence begotten in thy owne bloud: or bury thee in the earthly graue of thy owne melancholy. Oh it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the liuing God. It is then wretchedly done, thou Foole, to iest at sinne that angers God, who is able to anger all the vaines of thy heart for it.