A01956:1934
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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They are here said to bee Sicut Serpentes; Like Serpents. But Matthew 23. oCHRIST calls the Pharisees very Serpents. And John Baptist pa generation of Vipers. And GOD tells Ezekiel, that he did qdwell among Scorpions. In these places the Sicut is left out, and the wicked are called very Serpents. Not that the frame and form of their bodily constitution was Serpentine.
They are here sayd to bee Sicut Serpentes; Like Serpents. But Mathew 23. oCHRIST cals the Pharises very Serpents. And Iohn Baptist pa generation of Vipers. And GOD telles Ezekiel, that he did qdwell among Scorpions. In these places the Sicut is left out, and the wicked are called very Serpents. Not that the frame and forme of their bodily constitution was Serpentine.