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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE SOULS REFUGE.
THE SOVLES REFVGE.
1. PET. 4. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
1. PET. 4. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their soules to him in well doing, as vnto a faithfull Creator.
A TRUE Christians life is one day of three meals, and every meal hath in it two Courses. His first meal is Nasc• & renasci; to be borne a sinner, to be new-borne a Saint. aI was borne in iniquity, and in firm did my mother conceive me; there is one Course. bExcept a man be borne again, he cannot see the kingdom of God; there is the other Course. His second meal is Benè agere, & malè pati; to do well, and to suffer ill. Do good unto all; but especially to those that are of the household of Faith; there's one Course of Doing. c All that live godly in ⟨p. 349⟩