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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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For us. Ambr. aPro me doluit, qui pro se nihil habuit quod doleret. He suffered for me, that had no cause to suffer ⟨p. 177⟩for himself. O Domine Jesu, doles non tua, sed vulnera mea. So monstrous were our sins, that the hand of the everlasting Justice was ready to strike us with a fatal and final blow: Christ in his own person steppes between the stroke and us; and bore that a while, that would have sunk us for ever. bNos immortalitate malè usi sumus, ut moreremur; Christus mortalitate benè usus est, ut viveremus. We abused the immortality we had to our death: Christ used the mortality he had not to our life. Dilexit nos; he loved us; & such us, that were his utter enemies. Here then was love without limitation, beyond imitation. Unspeakable mercy, says Bernard; that the king of eternal glory should yield himself to be crucified, cProtam despicatissimo vernaculo, immò vermiculo: for so poor a wretch, yea a worm and that not a loving worm, not a living worm: for we both hated him and his; and were dead in sins and trespasses.
For vs. Ambr. aPro me doluit, qui pro se nihil habuit quod doleret. He suffered for me, that had no cause to suffer ⟨p. 177⟩for himselfe. O Domine Iesu, doles non tua, sed vulnera mea. So monstrous were our sinnes, that the hand of the euerlasting Iustice was ready to strike vs with a fatall and finall blow: Christ in his owne person steppes betweene the stroke and vs; and bore that a while, that would haue sunke vs for euer. bNos immortalitate malè vsi sumus, vt moreremur; Christus mortalitate benè vsus est, vt viueremus. We abused the immortality we had to our death: Christ vsed the mortality he had not to our life. Dilexit nos; he loued vs; & such vs, that were his vtter enemies. Here then was loue without limitation, beyond imitation. Vnspeakable mercy, sayes Bernard; that the king of eternall glory should yeeld himselfe to be crucified,