A01956:1995
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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2. To omit visions, and dreams, and clouds and Cherubins and Angels, urim and thummim: God speaks also by his works. nThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handy work. M•nus loquuntur; his works have a tongue. Opera testantur de me, sayth Christ: my works bear witness of me. We may thus understand God ex operibus; his actions preach his will.
2. To omit visions, and dreames, and cloudes and Cherubins and Angells, vrim and thummim: God speakes also by his workes. nThe heauens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handie worke. M•nus loquuntur; his workes haue a tongue. Opera testantur de me, sayth Christ: my workes beare witnesse of me. We may thus vnderstand God ex operibus; his actions preach his will.
3. God speaks by his Sonne. Hebr. 1. God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in t•me past unto the Fathers by the Prophets; hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Sonne. He is therefore called the Word. Joh. 1 The sacred Scriptures, and sayings ⟨p. 338⟩of the Prophets, given by the inspiration of God; (for o