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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.
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We see the Ascent; shall we bring down again this consideration by as many stairs?
We see the Ascent; shall we bring downe againe this consideration by as many stayres?
1. Consider him Almighty God taking upon him Mans nature: this is the first steppe down wards gThe word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. And hGod sent forth his Son made of a woman. And this was done iNaturam suscipiendo nostram, non mutando suam: by putting on our nature, not by putting off his own. Homo Deo accessit, non Deus a serecessit. He is both God and man, yet but one Christ: one not by confusion of substance but by unity of person. Now in that this Eternal God became man, he suffered more, then man ⟨p. 165⟩can suffer either living or dead. That man should be turned into a beast, into a worm, into dust, into nothing; is not so great a disparagement as that the glorious God should become man. kHe that thought it not robbery to be equal with God, was made in the likeness of man. He that is lmore excellent then the Angels, became lower then the Angels, that he might advance us as high as the Angels. Even the brightness of Gods glory takes on him the baseness of our nature: and he that laid the foundations of the earth, and made the world, is now in the world made himself. This is the first descending degree.
1. Consider him Almightie God taking vpon him Mans nature: this is the first steppe downe wards