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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Centre is Jesus Christ.
The Center is Iesus Christ.
Jesus was his proper Name, Christ his appellative. Jesus a name of his nature, Christ of his Office and dignity; as Divines speak.
Iesus was his proper Name, Christ his appellatiue. Iesus a name of his nature, Christ of his Office and dignitie; as Diuines speake.
Jesus a Name of all sweetness. bMel in ora, Melos in a•re, jubilus in cord. A reconciler, a Redeemer, a Saviour. When the conscience wrestles with Law, Sin, Death; nothing but horror and despair without Jesus. He is cthe way, the Truth, and the Life: without him Error, Me•dacium, Mors. Si scribas, non placet, nisi legam ibi Jesum: saith Bernard. If thou writest to me, thy letter doth not please me, unless I read there Jesus. If thou conferrest, thy discourse is not sweet, without the name of Jesus. The blessed restorer of all, of more then all that Adam lost▪ for we have gotten more by his regenerating grace, then we lost by Adams degenerating Sin.