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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
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Yesterday to our Fathers.
All our Fathers, whose souls are now in heaven, those Spirits of just men made perfect. Hebr. 12. were, as 1the next words intimate, saved by Jesus the mediator of the new Covenant, and by the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things then that of Abel. Whether they lived under Nature, or under the Law, Christ was their expectation; and they were justified credendo in venturum Christum; by beleeving in the Messiah to come. So Luke 2. Simeon is said to wait for the consolation of 2Israel.
All our Fathers, whose soules are now in heauen, those Spirits of iust men made perfect. Hebr. 12. were, as 1the next words intimate, saued by Iesus the mediatour of the new Couenant, and by the bloud of sprinkling, that speaketh better things then that of Abell. Whether they liued vnder Nature, or vnder the Law, Christ was their expectation; and they were iustified credendo in venturum Christum; by beleeuing in the Messias to come. So Luke 2. Simeon is sayd to waite for the consolation of