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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
THE WAY HOME. › The Manner. In a dream.THE WAY HOME. › The Maner. In a dreame.
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Here let us observe, that God doth sometimes draw men to him suis ipsorum […]; by their own delights and studies. No doubt these Magi were well acquainted with dreams: it being amongst Ethnics and Peripatetics a special object of divination. Therefore there is a book bearing the name of Aristotle; De divi•ne p•r somnium. Many •ors these men had swallowed ⟨p. 217⟩by dreams; now behold, in a dream they shall receive the truth. So God called them by a Star, whose profession was to rely too much on the Stars. tQuare per Stellam? ut per Christum ipsa materia erroris, fieret salutis occasio. Why by a Star? that through Jesus Christ the very matter of their error might be made a means of their salvation. Per […] ill•s vocat, qu• famil•ria illis cons•tudo fecit. God calls them by those things, which custom had made familiar to them. They that are stung with Scorpions, must be cured by the oil of Scorpions. Thus God allures men to him, as Fishermen […], with such baits as may be somewhat ag•ble to them. Paul is occasioned by the uAl• […] the unknown God, to make known the true God, the […] Jesus. Doth David love the Sheep-folds? he shall be a Shepherd still. xFrom following the e•s great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Isr•ll his • ritance. Doth Peter love fishing? he shall go a fishing still, though for more noble creatures; to catch soule•. Do these Magicians love Stars and Dreams, behold a Star and a Dream shall instruct them in the truth of God. Old Is takes occasion by the smell of his Sons garments, savouring of the field, to pronounce a spiritual blessing.