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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. To great men. It is the opinion of some, that these magi were kings: & that the Evangelist in calling them wise men, gave them a more honourable title, then if he had called them kings. So Ludolphus says, that Magus was in those days more noble then Magnus. But we must know, who they are that thus stile them: Fryers & Jesuits, such as can by no means endure the superiority of Princes. That are Derisores hominum maxim potentū. Hereon some of them have mooted strange problems able to fill whole volumes. An Sacerdotes Regibus praeferendi. Whether Priests be not above kings. But still the conclusion is against Princes. Some more moderate on that side have confessed them not Reges, but Regulos, little kings, petit Princes. Like those one & thirty kings, that conspired against bJoshua. Or those fifty that met at Troy. There is a kind of king in France, whom the common people call, Le Roy Dlynetot. But that these were but three in number, and kings in power, it may be painted in a popish window, is not in Catholics bible, therefore needs not be in a Christians creed.
1. To great men. It is the opinion of some, that these magi were kings: & that the Euangelist in calling them wise men, gaue them a more honourable title, then if hee had called them kings. So Ludolphus sayes, that Magus was in those dayes more noble then Magnus. But wee must know, who they are that thus stile them: Fryers & Iesuites, such as can by no meanes endure the superiority of Princes. That are Derisores hominum maxime potentū. Hereon some of them haue mooted strange problemes able to fill whole volumes. An Sacerdotes Regibus praeferendi. Whether Priests be not aboue kings. But still the conclusion is against Princes. Some more moderate on that side haue confessed them not Reges, but Regulos, litle kings, petit Princes. Like those one & thirtie kings, that conspired against bIosuah. Or those fifty that met at Troy. There is a kind of king in France, whom the common people call, Le Roy Dlynetot. But that these were but three in number, and kings in power, it may be painted in a popish window, is not in Catholickes bible, therefore needs not be in a Christians creed.
- bJosu. 12. 24.