A01956:1919
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
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1. It makes them swell with pride, and blows up the heart, as a bladder with a quill. eQuis est David? Who is David? and who is the Son of Jesse? Yea fQuis est Dominus? Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Thus the Spider, a poisonous vermin, gClimes up to the roof of the kings palace. If he be in prosperity nothing can hold him to a man. Be he but a hThistle, he sends to the king of Lebanon, for his daughter to be his Sons wife. Though he be but a dwarf in comparison, he would swell to a son of Anak. Sin hath puffed him up, & he forgets his maker. iThe Lord hath fed him to the full, & he rebels against him. We have then good cause to pray with our Church; In the time of our wealth, good Lord deliver us.
1. It makes them swell with pride, and blowes vp the heart, as a bladder with a quill. eQuis est Dauid? Who is Dauid? and who is the Sonne of Iesse? Yea fQuis est Dominus? Who is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? Thus the Spider, a poysonous vermine, gClimes vp to the roofe of the kings pallace. If he be in prosperitie nothing can hold him to a man. Be hee but a hThistle, he sends to the king of Lebanon, for his daughter to be his Sonnes wife. Though he be but a dwarfe in comparison, he would swell to a son of Anak. Sinne hath puff'd him vp, & he forgets his maker. iThe Lord hath fed him to the full, & he rebells against him. We haue then good cause to pray with our Church; In the time of our wealth, good Lord deliuer vs.