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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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1. That we have need of Patience: seeing we know that the law of our Profession binds us to a warfare; and it is decreed upon that all that will live godly in Christ, shall suffer persecution. When Fire, which was the God of the Chaldeans, had devoured all the other wooden deity, Canopis set upon him a Caldron full of ⟨p. 105⟩water, whose bottom was full of holes artificially stopped with wax: which when it felt the heat of that furious Idol, melted and gave way to the water to fall down upon it, and quench it. The water of our patience must only extinguish this Fire: nothing but our tears moderation and sufferance can abate it. But this patience hath no further latitude, then our proper respect: for in the cause of the Lord we must must be jealous and zealous. lMeam iniuri•m patienter tully, iniuriam contra Sponsam Christi ferre non potui. Our own injuries we must bury in forgetfulness, but wrongs to the Truth of God, and Gospel of Jesus Christ, we must strive to oppose and appease. Patience is intolerable, when the honour of God is in dangerous question. Otherwise we must consider, that by troubles God doth try and exercise our patience. Ideo Deus misit in terram bonam separationem, ut mal•m rumperet coniunctionem. Therefore God sent on earth a good separation, that he might dissolve an evil conjunction.
1. That we haue neede of Patience: seeing we know that the law of our Profession binds vs to a warfare; and it is decreed vpon that all that will liue godly in Christ, shall suffer persecution. When Fire, which was the God of the Chaldeans, had deuoured all the other wooden deitie, Canopis set vpon him a Caldron full of ⟨p. 105⟩water, whose bottome was full of holes artificially stopt with waxe: which when it felt the heat of that furious Idol, melted and gaue way to the water to fall downe vpon it, and quench it. The water of our patience must onely extinguish this Fire: nothing but our teares moderation and sufferance can abate it. But this patience hath no further latitude, then our proper respect: for in the cause of the Lord wee must must be iealous and zealous.