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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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Only death adds to our strength: nor are we grown: In stature to be men, till we are none. ⟨p. 199⟩Let this answer the Poet. Anguibus exuitur tenui cum pelle vetustas: Cur nos angust a conditione su•us?1 Why do serpents repair themselves, and man decay? The answer is easy and comfortable when there shall be new heavens and new earth, we shall have new bodies. They have here new bodies, and we old bodies: but there we shall have new bodies when they are no bodies.
Only death adds t'our strength: nor are we growne: In stature to be men, till we are none. ⟨p. 199⟩Let this answer the Poet. Anguibus exuitur tenui cum pelle vetustas: Cur nos angust a conditione su•us?1 Why do serpents repaire themselues, and man decay? The answere is easie and comfortable when there shall be new heauens and new earth, wee shall haue new bodies. They haue here new bodies, and we old bodies: but there we shall haue new bodies when they are no bodies.
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But to our purpose. They write that the Serpent gets him to some narrow passage, as between two sticks, & so slips off his skin. And this is called Sp• lium serpentis, or v•rnatio serpentis. If we would cast off our old coat, which is corrupt according to deceitful lusts, we must pass through a n