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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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2. This should move us: was all this done for us, and shall we not be stirred? iHave ye no regard? Is it nothing to you, that I suffer such sorrow as was never suffered? All his agony, his cries, and tears, and groans, and pangs were for us: shall he thus grieve for us, and shall we not grieve for our selves? For our selves I say; not so much for him. Let his passion move us to compassion, not of his sufferings, (alas our pity can do him no good) but of our sins which caused them. kDaughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your selves, and for your children. For our selves: not for his pains▪ that are past, but for our own that should have been, and (except our faith sets him in our stead▪) shall be. Shall he •eepe •o us, for us, and shall we not mourn? Shall he drink so deeply to v• in this cup of sorrow, and shall we not pledge him? Doth the wrath of God make the Son of God shri•ke o•t; and shall not the servants for whom he suffered tumble? lOm•s creatura compatitur Christ• […]. Every creature seems to suffer with Christ. Sun, earth, rocks, sepulchres: Solus miser […] non compatitur, pro quo solo Christus patitur. Onely man suffers nothing, for whom Christ suffered all. Doth his passion tear the Veil, rent the stones, cleave the rocks, shake the earth, open the graves; and are our hearts more hard then those insensible creatures, that they cannot be penetrated? Doth heaven and earth, Sun and elements, suffer with him, and is it nothing to us? We, wretched men that we are, that were the principals in this murder of Christ: whereas Judas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Soldiers, Jews, were all but accessories and instrumental ⟨p. 180⟩