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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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The militant part is a company of men living under the cross, and desiring to be with Christ. They suffer, and this is their way to glory; hthrough much tribulation entering into the kingdom of God. They desire dissolution, being iwilling rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord, not simply and absolutely desiring death: but first that they might leave sinning, and so cease to displease God: and then to come nearer to their blessed Saviour, whose love hath ravished their hearts. Now this militant Church may have many parts: as the Ocean sea is but one, yet distinguished according to the Regions upon which it lies. So there is the Spanish Ocean, the English Ocean, the German Ocean. There is a Church in England, a Church in France, a Church in Germany: yet there is but one militant Church. Multa Ecclesiae, una Ecclesia; saith S. Augustine. One Sun, many beams; one Kingdom, many shires; one tree, many branches.
The militant part is a company of men liuing vnder the crosse, and desiring to be with Christ. They suffer, and this is their way to glory; hthrough much tribulation entring into the kingdome of God. They desire dissolution, being iwilling rather to be absent from the body, and to bee present with the Lord, not simply and absolutely desiring death: but first that they might leaue sinning, and so cease to displease God: and then to come neerer to their blessed Sauiour, whose loue hath rauished their hearts. Now this militant Church may haue many parts: as the Ocean sea is but one, yet distinguished according to the Regions vpon which it lies. So there is the Spanish Ocean, the English Ocean, the German Ocean. There is a Church in England, a Church in France, a Church in Germany: yet there is but one militant Church. Multa Ecclesiae, vna Ecclesia; saith S. Augustine. One Sunne, many beames; one Kingdome, many shires; one tree, many branches.