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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
A CRUCIFIX OR A Sermon upon the Passion. › Who.A CRVCIFIXE OR A Sermon vpon the Passion. › Who.
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. We will consider him Hominem; a man. aBehold the man, saith Pilate. We may tarry and wonder at his lowest degree; that a man should give himself for man. bFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die. But this man gave himself for unrighteous man to die; not an ordinary, but a grievous death, exposing himself to the wrath of God, to the tyranny of men and Devils. It would pity our hearts to see a poor dumb beast so terrified, how much more Hominem, a man, the Image of God!
1. We will consider him Hominem; a man. aBehold the man, saith Pilate. We may tarry and wonder at his lowest degree; that a man should giue himselfe for man. bFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die. But this man gaue himselfe for vnrighteous man to die; not an ordinary, but a greevous death, exposing himselfe to the wrath of God, to the tyrranie of men and Devils. It would pittie our hearts to see a poore dumbe beast so terrified, how much more Hominem, a man, the Image of God!
2 The second degree gives him hominem innocentem, an Innocent man. Pilate could say.