A01956:1670
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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This is not to be always the same, but never the same: and whiles they would be every thing, they are nothing: but like the worm Pliny writes of, multipoda; that hath many feet, yet is of slow pace. A while you shall have him in England, loving the simple truth: anon in Rome grovelling before an Image: soon after, he leaps to Amsterdam: and yet must he still be turning, till there be nothing left but to turn Turk. To winter an opinion is too tedious: he hath bin many things; what he will be, you shall scarce know, till he is nothing.
This is not to be alwayes the same, but neuer the same: and whiles they would bee euery thing, they are nothing: but like the worme Plinie writes of, multipoda; that hath many feete, yet is of slow pace. A while you shall haue him in England, louing the simple truth: anone in Rome groueling before an Image: soone after, he leaps to Amsterdam: and yet must he still be turning, till there be nothing left but to turne Turke. To winter an opinion is too tedious: he hath bin many things; what hee will be, you shall scarce know, till he is nothing.
But the God of Constancy would have his to be constant. Steadfast in your faith to him. Colos. 1. Continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from 1the hope of the Gospel. Steadfast in your faithfulness to man, dpromising and not disappointing. Do not aliud stantes, aliud sedates: least your changing with God, teach God to change with you. eNemo potest tibi Christum •uferre, •isi t• illi auferas. No man can turn Christ from thee, unless thou turn thy self from Christ. For Jesus Christ the same yesterday, &c.