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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
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1. One may be said to be written in heaven simpliciter, and secundum quid. Hee that is simply written there, In quantum praedestinatus ad vitam, because elected to life, can never be blotted out. He that is but written after a sort, may; for he is written Non secundum Dei praescientiam, sed secundum praesentem justitiam: not according to ⟨p. 86⟩Gods former decree, but according to their present righteousness. So they are said to be blotted out, not in respect of Gods knowledge: for he knows they were never written there; but according to their present condition, apostating from grace to sin. Lyran.
1. One may be said to be written in heauen simpliciter, and secundum quid. Hee that is simply written there, In quantum praedestinatus ad vitam, because elected to life, can neuer be blotted out. Hee that is but written after a sort, may; for hee is written Non secundum Dei praescientiam, sed secundum praesentem iustitiam: not according to ⟨p. 86⟩Gods former decree, but according to their present righteousnesse. So they are said to be blotted out, not in respect of Gods knowledge: for hee knowes they were neuer written there; but according to their present condition, apostating from grace to sinne. Lyran.
2. Some are blotted out, non secundum rei veritatem, sed hominum opinionem: not according to the truth of the thing, but according to mens opinion. It is usual in the Scriptures, to say a thing is done, quando innotescat fieri, when it is declared to be done. Hypocrites have a simulation of outward sanctity, so that men in charity judge them to be written in heaven. But when those glistering stars appear to be only Ignes fatui, foolish meteors; and fall from the firmament of the Church; then we say they are blotted out. The written ex existentiâ, by a perfect being, never lost; but ex apparentiâ, by a dissembled appearance, may. Some God so writes, In se ut simpliciter habituri vitam; that they have life simply in themselves, though not of themselves. Others he so writes, ut habeant non in se, sed in sua causa; from which falling they are said to be obliterated. Aquin.