A01956:1881
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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Lost; but where was man lost? There are diverse loosing places.
Lost; but where was man lost? There are diuerse loosing places.
1. A garden of delights: and there the first man lost himself, and all us: in a Garden therefore our Saviour found us again. We were Lost in a garden of rest, we are found in a garden of trouble. The serpent could never take the hare, (he was too light footed for him) till he found him sleeping in a garden of sweet flowers, under which the serpent lay hidden. Whilst man not only surfeits on pleasures, but sleeps in them, Satan that old serpent wounds him to death.
1. A garden of delights: and there the first man lost himselfe, and all vs: in a Garden therefore our Sauiour found vs againe. We were Lost in a garden of rest, we are found in a garden of trouble. The serpent could neuer take the hare, (he was too light footed for him) till hee found him sleeping in a garden of sweet flowers, vnder which the serpent lay hidden. Whilst man not onely surfeits on pleasures, but sleepes in them, Satan that old serpent wounds him to death.
2. A wilderness is a place able to loose us: and that's this world, a wide and wild forrest; many lost in it. We read of a rich man, Luk. 12. that lost himself in one corner of this wilderness, his very barns: ⟨p. 305⟩strange, to be lost in a barn. And yet how many loose themselves in a less room, their Counting house! The usurer hath there lost his soul, and no man can find it. It is so long wrapped up among his bonds, till Satan take the forfeit. The depopulator takes a larger field to loose his soul in; and to make sure work, that grace may never find it, he hedges and ditches it in.