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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.
This Jesus Christ is the Centre of this Text: and not only of this, but of the whole Scripture. The Sum of Divinity is the Scripture: the Sum of the Scripture is the Gospel, the Sum of the Gospel is Jesus Christ. In a word, Nihil continet verbum Domini, nisi verbum Dominum. There is nothing contained in the word of God, but God the Word.
This Iesus Christ is the Center of this Text: and not onely of this, but of the whole Scripture. The Summe of Diuinitie is the Scripture: the Summe of the Scripture is the Gospell, the Summe of the Gospell is Iesus Christ. In a word, Nihil continet verbum Domini, nisi verbum Dominum. There is nothing contained in the word of God, but God the Word.
Nor is he the Centre only of his Word, but of our rest and Peace. dI determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Thou hast made us for thee. O Christ; and our heart is unquiet till it rest in thee. It is natural to every thing appettere centrum, to desire the Centre. But eour life is hid with Christ in God. We must needs amare, where we must animare. Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is: but all these, our pleasure, treasure, life, are reposed in Jesus Christ. Thou art my Portion, O Lord, saith David. Take the world that please, let our Portion be Christ. fWe have left all, saith Peter, and followed thee: you have lost nothing by it, saith Christ; for you have gotten me. Nimis avarus est, cui non sufficit Christus. Hee is too covetous, whom Jesus Christ cannot satisfy. Let us seek this Centre, saith gAugust. Qu•ramus inueniendum, quaeramus inuentum. Ut inveniendus qu•ratur, paratus est: ut inuentus quratur, immensus est. Let us seek him, till we have found him: and still seek him when we have found him. That seeking we may find him, he is ready: that finding we may seek him, he