A01956:1879
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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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 ecame not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He leaves the ninety nine in the Wilderness, to seek the lost sheep. Whether it be meant of the just Angels in Heaven; as Ambrose, Chrysostom, Hilary, Euthymius think. Or those that thought themselves just, ⟨p. 304⟩as Bucer and Ludolphus; the Scribes and Pharisees, that presumed they needed no repentance. He embraceth Publicans and sinners, that confess themselves sick, and lacking a Physician; sinful wretches, and needing a Saviour.
Here was then the purpose of Christs comming; to seeke the lost, to recall wanderers, to heale the sicke, to cleanse the Leprous, to reuiue the dead, to saue sinners. He ecame not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He leaues the nintie nine in the Wildernesse, to seeke the lost sheepe. Whether it bee meant of the iust Angels in Heauen; as Ambrose, Chrysostome, Hilary, Euthymius thinke. Or those that thought thēselues iust, ⟨p. 304⟩as Bucer and Ludolphus; the Scribes and Pharises, that presumed they needed no repentance. He embraceth Publicans and sinners, that confesse themselues sicke, and lacking a Physician; sinfull wretches, and needing a Sauiour.
Those worldlings in the Gospel have better cheer at home; what care they for Christs supper? It is the dry ground that thinks well of rain, the hungry soul that is glad of sustenance. The mercy of God falls most welcome on the broken spirit. They that feel themselves miserable, and that they stand in need of every drop of his saving blood, to those it runs fresh and sweet. They that feel themselves lost, are found. They are least of all lost, that think themselves most lost: they are nearest to their health, that are most sensible of their sickness. These he seeks, these he saves: to these