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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.
1. The threatening of Tyrants; this smoke came out 1of the mouth of Saul. Act. 9. And Saul yet breathing out threatenings. Such were the Romish vaunts of the Spanish ships: but God quenched that fire in water; and it was but a smoke. He that could forbid the fire to 2burn, can also forbid the smoke to become a […]. Only the massacre at Paris was a fire without a smoke unless it be smoke enough (as indeed it is) for Papists to live among Protestants.
1. The threatning of Tyrants; this smoke came out 1of the mouth of Saul. Act. 9. And Saul yet breathing out threatnings. Such were the Romish vaunts of the Spanish ships: but God quenched that fire in water; and it was but a smoke. Hee that could forbid the fire to 2burne, can also forbid the smoke to become a 〈…〉. Onely the massacre at Paris was a fire without a smoke vnles it be smoke enough (as indeed it is) for Papists to liue among Protestants.
2. Security is a public Smoke: when men cry Peace, peace; this is the smoke of war. The careless lives of the old world and Sodom, were portentous smokes of their enkindled destruction. Our secure and dead hearted conversations are arguments of the like to us. God both avert that, and convert us. We feast revel, dance, sin, and sing like swans the prognostics of our own funerals. We are not circumspect to look up on those, which watch us with the keen eyes of malice our sleep gives them hope & our selves danger. Neglect of defence heartens on a very coward enemy. Our comfort only is; He that keepeth Israel doth not slumber nor sleep,