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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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1. Their first policy is by all possible means to defend their head. If they must encounter with danger, they expose their whole body to it; but howsoever they will safeguard their head. They write of them, that though all a serpents body be mangled, unless his head be cut off, (which he cunningly hides) by a kind of attractive power and vigour one part will come to another again.
1. Their first policie is by all possible meanes to defend their head. If they must encounter with danger, they expose their whole body to it; but howsoeuer they will safeguard their head. They write of them, that though all a serpents body be mangled, vnlesse his head be cut off, (which he cunningly hides) by a kind of attractiue power and vigor one part will come to another againe.
This is to us a singular document of Wisdom, to look well to our Head. Christ is our Head; and the sinews and nerves that knit us to him, is our Faith and Hope: let us preserve these indanted, endamaged. We fight against an enemy, that seeks especially to wound us there. He strikes indeed at every place: he ⟨p. 190⟩hath, saith Jerome, no•ina mille, mille nocendi arts: therefore Paul chargeth us to ePut on the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand against all the w•les of the Devil: but especially the head. fAbove all take the shield of Faith, and the Helmet of salvation: save the Head. Protect all parts, if it be poss•le: let not oppression wound thee in the hand, nor blasphemy in the tongue, nor wantonness in the eye, nor covetousness in the heart: but howsoever shield thy head: loose not thy hope of salvation, thy faith in Jesus Christ.