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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
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.
MATTH. 10. 16. Be ye wise as Serpents, and harmless as Doves.
MATTH. 10. 16. Be ye wise as Serpents, and harmelesse as Doues.
OV• of every creature (simply considered) there is some good to be learned. The divine aPoet sweetly. The World's a School, where in a general si•rie, God always reads dumb lectures of his glory.
OV• of euery creature (simply considered) there is some good to bee learned. The diuine aPoet sweetly. The World's a Schoole, where in a generall si•rie, God alwayes reads dumbe l•ctures of his glorie.
- aDu Bartas. 1. day. 1. Week. fol. 6.
It is a three leaved book, Heaven, Earth, and Sea: and every leaf of this book, every line of every leaf, every creature in this universe, can read to man, for whom they were made, a Divinity lecture. In a speaking silence they preach to us that Deity, which made both them and us, and them for us. Seculm Speculum: the world is a glass, wherein we may behold our Creators Majesty. From the highest Angel to the lowest worm, all instruct us somewhat. For one and the same almighty hand, that made the Angels in heaven, made also the worms on earth.