A01956:1880
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.
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.
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 fNascens see dedit in socium, con•escens in cibum, moriens in pretium, regnans in praemium. In his birth he became their companion, in his life their food, in his death their redemption, in his glory their Salvation.
Those worldlings in the Gospell haue better cheare at home; what care they for Christs supper? It is the dry ground that thinkes well of raine, the hungry soule that is glad of sustenance. The mercie of God falls most welcome on the broken spirit. They that feele themselues miserable, and that they stand in need of euery droppe of his sauing bloud, to those it runnes fresh and sweet. They that feele themselues lost, are found. They are least of all lost, that thinke themselues most lost: they are nearest to their health, that are most sensible of their sicknesse. These hee seekes, these he saues: to these fNascens se dedit in socium, con•escens in cibum, moriens in pretium, regnans in praemium. In his birth he became their companion, in his life their food, in his death their redemption, in his glory their Saluation.
- fPostil. cathol con. 2. dom. 1. Advent.Postil. cathol con. 2. dom. 1. Aduent.