A01956:1835
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.
His Humility.
His Humilitie.
If your understandings can reach the depth of this bottom, take it at one view. The Son of God calls himself the Son of man. The omnipotent Creator becomes an impotent creature. As himself saith; fGreater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So greater humility never was then this, that God should be made man. It is the voice of Pride in man, gI will be like God: but the action of Humility in God, I will be man. Proud Nebuchadnezzar says, Ero similis altissimo, I will be like the Highest: meek Christ saith, Ero similis infimo I will be like the lowest: he put on him the the form of a servant: yea he was a despised Worm. God spoke it in derision of sinful man; hBehold, he is become as one of us: but now we may say, God is become as one of us. There the lowest aspires to be the Highest, here the Highest vouchsafes to be the lowest. Alexander a son of man would make himself the son of God: Christ the Son of God makes himself the son of man. God in iwhose presence is fullness of joy, becomes ka man full of sorrows. Eternal rest betakes himself to unrest: having whilst he lived i passive action, and when he dyed active passion.