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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. › Whom?A CRVCIFIXE OR A Sermon vpon the Passion. › Whom?
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Not the blood of Bulls or Goats. Hebr. 9. Alas, those legal sacrifices were but dumb shows of this tragedy, the mere figures of this oblation; mystically presenting to their faith, that Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. This Lamb was prefigured in the sacrifices of the law, & now presented in the sacraments of the Gospel: slain indeed from the beginning of the world Who had power. Prodesse, to profit us; before hee had Esse, a being himself. None of these would serve.
Not the bloud of Bulls or Goates. Hebr. 9. Alas, those legal sacrifices were but dumbe shewes of this tragedie, the meere figures of this oblation; mystically presenting to their faith, that Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world. This Lambe was prefigured in the sacrifices of the law, & now presented in the sacraments of the Gospell: slaine indeed from the begining of the world Who had power. Prodesse, to profit vs; before hee had Esse, a being himselfe. None of these would serue.
Whom Gave he then? Seipsum, Himself; who was both God and man: that so participating of both natures, our mortality, and Gods Immortality, he might be a perfect Mediator. gApparuit igitur inter mortales peccatores & immortalem justum, mortalis cum hominibus, justus cum Deo. He came between mortal men and immortal God, mortal with men, and just with God. As man he suffered, as God he satisfied: as God and man he saved. He gave himself; See | Totum | Himself | Wholly Solum | Only
Whom Gaue he then? Seipsum, Himselfe; who was both God and man: that so participating of both natures, our mortalitie, and Gods Immortalitie, he might be a perfect Mediator. gApparuit igitur inter mortales peccatores & immortalem iustum, mortalis cum hominibus, iustus cum Deo. He came betweene mortall men and immortall God, mortall with men, and iust with God. As man he suffered, as God hee satisfied: as God and man he saued. He gaue himselfe; Se | Totum | Himselfe | Wholy Solum | Onely