A01956:1980
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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Not our spirit alone can give this assurance: for mans heart is always evil, often deceitful. At all times evil. hEvery imagination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually. At some times deceitful. iThe heart is deceitful above all things; and desperately wicked: Who can know it? Non novi animam meam; saith Job. kI know not my own soul; though I were perfect. And Paul concerning his Apostleship. lI know nothing by my self, yet am I not hereby justified. And if Davids soul could have made a sufficient testimony alone, what needed he pray Dic animae? say Thou to my soul? Some have a true ⟨p. 333⟩zeal of a false Religion, and some a false zeal of a true Religion. Paul before his conversion had a true zeal of a false Religion. mI was exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my Fathers. The Laodiceans had a false or rather no zeal of a true Religion. nI know thy works, that thou art neither hot nor cold. So that when about this certificate a man deals with his heart singly, his heart will deal with him doubly.
Not our spirit alone can giue this assurance: for mans heart is alwayes euill, often deceitfull. At all times euill. hEuery imagination of the thoughts of his heart is onely euill continually. At some times deceitfull. iThe heart is deceitfull aboue all things; and desperately wicked: Who can know it? Non noui animam meam; sayth Iob. k