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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
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They that suffer. All men suffer: gMan is borne unto trouble, as the sparks she upward. This life is well compared to a throng in a narrow passage: he that is first out, finds ease: he that is in the midst, is in the worst place and case; for he is hemmed in with troubles: the hind-most drives out both the former; and if he have not the greatest part in suffering evil, lightly he hath the greatest share in doing it. Outward things happen alike to good and bad. hThere is one event to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: to him that sweareth, and to him that feareth an oath. They are both travellers in the thoroughfare of this world, both lodge in one Inn, both have the same provision; perhaps the wicked have the better cheer: but in the morning their ways part. There are common evils, as there are common goods. Poverty, sickness, death spares not the greatest: health, wealth, prosperity is not denied to the meanest. All have three Mans•ns. 1. This earth; there (as in No•s Ark) are the clean and unclean, righteous and wicked promiscuously confused. 2. The Grave: this is a common house; a very Pest-house: where all lie together under the Surgery of death. It is a cheap and universal house; we pay no rent for it. 3. But after all are come to this place, there is then a way of parting. Est locus bis parts ubi see via findit in ambas. Some 3go to hell, others to heaven. iThey shall come forth, ⟨p. 351⟩they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life: and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. Some to immortal honour, others to immortal horror.
They that suffer. All men suffer: gMan is borne vnto trouble, as the sparkes she vpward. This life is well compared to a throng in a narrow passage: hee that is first out, finds ease: he that is in the midst, is in the worst place and case; for he is hemm'd in with troubles: the hind-most driues out both the former; and if he haue not the greatest part in suffering euill, lightly hee hath the greatest share in doing it. Outward things happen alike to good and bad.