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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
THE LOST ARE FOUND. › The lost.THE LOST ARE FOVND. › The lost.
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The lost.
There Ecce Potestatem, behold his power. He is that dstrongest man, that unbound us from the fetters of sin and Satan. Fortissimus; for caetera excellit, caetera expellit: he excels the rest, he expels the rest. He had need be powerful, that redeems so weak man from the hands of so strong enemies. Magnus venit medicus, quia magnus jacebat aegrotus. The whole world was sick: there had need be a great Physician, for there was a great Patient. Lo where wretchedness lies at the foot of Goodness; ecce miserum ante misericordem. What but infinite Misery should be the fit object of infinite Mercy!
There Ecce Potestatem, behold his power. He is that dstrongest man, that vnbound vs from the fetters of sin and Sathan. Fortissimus; for caetera excellit, caetera expellit: he excels the rest, he expels the rest. He had need be powerfull, that redeemes so weake man from the hands of so strong enemies. Magnus venit medicus, quia magnus iacebat aegrotus. The whole world was sicke: there had need be a great Physician, for there was a great Patient. Loe where wretchednes lies at the foot of Goodnesse; ecce miserum ante misericordem. What but infinite Miserie should be the fit obiect of infinite Mercie!
- dLuk. 11. 22.]
Here was then the purpose of Christs coming; to seek the lost, to recall wanderers, to heal the sick, to cleanse the Leprous, to revive the dead, to save sinners. He