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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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6. Sin, which was punished even in heaven. Angeli detruduntur propter peecatum. 2. Pet. 2. God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell. It 1could bring down Angels from heaven to hell; how much more men from earth to hell! If it could corrupt such glorious natures, what power hath it against dust and ashes! Art thou better or dearer then the Angels were? Dost thou flout at that which condemned them? Go thy ways, make thy self merry with thy sins; mock at that which threw down Angels. Unless God give thee repentance, and another mind, thou shalt speed as the lost Angels did. For God may as easily cast thee from earth as he did them from heaven.
6. Sinne, which was punished euen in heauen. Angeli detruduntur propter peecatum. 2. Pet. 2. God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them downe to hell. It 1could bring downe Angels from heauen to hell; how much more men from earth to hell! If it could corrupt such glorious natures, what power hath it against dust and ashes! Art thou better or dearer then the Angelles were? Dost thou flowt at that which condemned them? Goe thy wayes, make thy selfe merry with thy sinnes; mocke at that which threw downe Angels. Vnles God giue thee repentance, and another minde, thou shalt speed as the lost Angels did. For God may as easilie cast thee from earth as he did them from heauen.
7. Sin, which God so loathed, that he could not save his own elect because of it, but by killing his own Sonne. It is such a disease, that nothing but the blood of the Son of God could cure it. He cured us by taking the receipts himself which we should have taken. He is first cast into a Sweat; such a sweat as never man but he felt; when the bubbles were drops of blood. Would not sweating serve? he comes to incision, they pierce his hands, his feet, his sides; and set life it self