A01956:1987
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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It may be, poverty puts pale leanness into our cheeks: God makes the world fat, but withal puts leanness into the soul. We decay in these temporal vanities, but we thrive in eternal riches. bThe good man laughs at destruction and dearth. Doth sickness throw us on our weary beds? It is impossible any man should miscarry, that hath God for his Physician. So Martha confessed to Jesus; cLord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not dyed. Thy body is weak, thy soul is strengthened: dust and ashes is sick, but thy eternal substance is the better for it. dIt is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
It may be, pouertie puts pale leannes into our cheeks: God makes the world fat, but withall puts leannesse into the soule. We decay in these temporall vanities, but we thriue in eternall riches. bThe good man laughes at destruction and dearth. Doth sicknes throw vs on our weary beds? It is impossible any man should miscarry, that hath God for his Physitian. So Martha confessed to Iesus; cLord, if thou hadst beene here, my brother had not dyed. Thy bodie is weake, thy soule is strengthened: dust and ashes is sicke, but thy eternall substance is the better for it. dIt is good for me that I haue beene afflicted, that I might learne thy statutes.