A01956:1883
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.
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.
2. A wildernesse is a place able to loose vs: and that's this world, a wide and wilde forrest; many lost in it. Wee read of a rich man, Luk. 12. that lost himselfe in one corner of this wildernesse, his very barnes: ⟨p. 305⟩strange, to be lost in a barne. And yet how many loose themselues in a lesse roome, their Counting house! The vsurer hath there lost his soule, and no man can find it. It is so long wrapped vp among his bonds, till Satan take the forfeit. The depopulator takes a larger field to loose his soule in; and to make sure worke, that grace may neuer find it, he hedges and ditches it in.
3. Another loosing place is a Labyrinth or Maze. In the Orchard of this world the God of it hath made a Labyrinth; which St. John describes. gThe lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The entrance hereinto is easy; as you have seen in that Emblem of Suretyship, the Horne: a man goes gently in at the Butte end, but comes hardly out at the Buckle: the coming forth is difficult. It is so full of crooked meanders, windings, and turnings, out of one sin into another; from consent to delight, from delight to custom, from custom to impenitency: that in this Labyrinth men soon grow to a maze, and know not how to be extricated. Labyrinthus, quasi labor intus: the wicked