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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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2. Though hands be here attributed to God, yet it is but by way of metaphor; not literally and in a true propriety of speech. To conceive GOD to be as man, with humane dimensions, was the heresy of the Anthropomorphites: and he that thus grossly thinks of God, saith Jerome makes an Idol of God in ⟨p. 283⟩his heart. But herein God stoops to the quality of our understandings ascribing to himself anger and displeasure, as it were passions to the impassible: whereas Nec Deus affectu capitur, nec tangitur ir•: they are not passions, but perfections. God hath a mouth, by which he teacheth man wisdom: he hath feet, by which he walketh on the earth his footstool: he hath hands, by which he giveth food to all flesh: he hath none of these organically, as men have; but in the variety of effects which he produceth. So Bernard; Per effectum haec habet, 1non per naturam.
2. Though hands be here attributed to God, yet it is but by way of metaphore; not literally and in a true proprietie of speech. To conceiue GOD to bee as man, with humane dimensions, was the heresie of the Anthro pomorphites: and hee that thus grossely thinkes of God, sayth Ierome makes an Idol of God in ⟨p. 283⟩his heart. But herein God stoopes to the qualitie of our vnderstandings ascribing to himselfe anger and displeasure, as it were passions to the impassible: whereas Nec Deus affectu capitur, nec tangitur ir•: they are not passions, but perfections. God hath a mouth, by which he teacheth man wisedome: he hath feet, by which he walketh on the earth his footestoole: he hath hands, by which he giueth food to all flesh: he hath none of these organically, as men haue; but in the varietie of effects which he produceth. So Bernard; Per effectum haec habet, 1non per naturam.
- 1Serm. 4. in Cant.