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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.
3. To seek. Ecce compassionem. He knew that we were utterly gone; that we had Nec valentis oculum, nec volentis animum: neither an eye able, nor a mind willing to seek him: in Pity he seeks us.
3. To seeke. Ecce compassionem. He knew that we were vtterly gone; that we had Nec valentis oculum, nec volentis animum: neither an eye able, nor a mind willing to seeke him: in Pittie he seekes vs.
4. To save. Ecce Pietatem. He seeks us not in ruinam, to our destruction as we deserved: but in salutem, to our salvation as he desired. Amissos quaerit, quaesitos invenit, inventos seruat. He seeks them that were lost, he finds them he seeks, he saves them he finds. To save.
4. To saue. Ecce Pietatem. He seekes vs not in ruinam, to our destruction as we deserued: but in salutem, to our saluation as he desired. Amissos quaerit, quaesitos invenit, inventos seruat. He seekes them that were lost, hee finds them he seekes, he saues them he finds. To saue.
5. The lost. Ecce Potestatem. He is not only able to strengthen us weak, nor to recover us sick, nor to fetch us home offering our selves to be brought: but when we had neither will nor power to procure this; yea when we had a reluctancy against this, for we were his enemies and hated him: he did recall us gone, revive us dead, seek and save us that were lost.
5. The lost. Ecce Potestatem. He is not onely able to strengthen vs weake, nor to recouer vs sicke, nor to fetch vs home offring our selues to bee brought: but when we had neither will nor power to procure this; yea when wee had a reluctancie against this, for wee were his enemies and hated him: he did recall vs gone, reviue vs dead, seeke and saue vs that were lost.