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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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If we would get out of this maze, we must (as God warned the iWise men) depart another way. Out of lust we must wind forth by Chastity, out of covetousness by Charity, out of Pride by Humility. Penitence is the clew to guide us forth: howsoever we came in, we must go out by Repentance.
If we would get out of this maze, we must (as God warned the iWisemen) depart another way. Out of lust we must wind forth by Chastitie, out of couetousnesse by Charitie, out of Pride by Humilitie. Penitence is the clew to guide vs forth: howsoeuer wee came in, we must goe out by Repentance.
4. A fourth loosing place is the multitude of new and strange ways: wherein men wander, as Saul after his Asses, and are lost. There is a way to Rome, a way to Amsterdam: a way to the silliness of ignorance, a way to the fullness of arrogance. None of all these is the way to Zion. In the multitude of ways multitude of souls loose themselves.
4. A fourth loosing place is the multitude of new and strange wayes: wherein men wander, as Saul after his Asses, and are lost. There is a way to Rome, a way to Amsterdam: a way to the sillinesse of ignorance, a way to the fullennesse of arrogancie. None of all these is the way to Sion. In the multitude of wayes multitude of soules loose themselues.