A01956:1623
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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The Lord doth disappoint the purposes of Tyrants: though their Bows be bent, and their swords whetted, yet the mark shall be removed: and they shall rather wound themselves, then their hated object. Though they be igreat with child of iniquity, and conceive mischief, yet they shall bring forth but falsehood. Though those Jews ⟨p. 220⟩had bound themselves kunder a curse, neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Yet if they had kept their vow, they had fasted to death. Though Sennacherib purposed to swallow up Jerusalem at a morsel; yet the Lord mocked his menaces. lHe shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor cast a bank against it.
The Lord doth disappoint the purposes of Tyrants: though their Bowes bee bent, and their swords whet•ed, yet the marke shall be remoued: and they shall rather wound themselues, then their hated obiect. Though they be igreat with child of iniquitie, and conceiue mischiefe, yet they shall bring forth but falshood. Though those Iewes ⟨p. 220⟩had bound themselues kvnder a curse, neither to eate nor drinke till they had killed Paul. Yet if they had kept their vow, they had fasted to death. Though Sennacherib purposed to swallow vp Ierusalem at a morsell; yet the Lord mocked his menaces. lHee shall not come into this citie, nor shoot an arrow there, nor cast a banke against it.