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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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Indeed there is no man that suffers contrary to the will of God, but many suffer not Secundùm, not according to the will of GOD. In his concealed ⟨p. 357⟩will he allows the sufferings of the Reprobates: this is his just judgement. They are smitten, but for their faults. Moerent, & merentur: they lament, and deserve to lament. When the Adulterer is wounded for his lust, he cannot think himself a patient secundum beneplacitum Dei, according to the will of God. When the usurer is fetched over for his extortion, the depopulator for his enclosing, the slanderer for his libelling, all these suffer, but not for conscience toward God, not according to his will. They only are said to suffer according to his will, that suffer first innocently, then patiently.
Indeed there is no man that suffers contrary to the will of God, but many suffer not Secundùm, not according to the will of GOD. In his concealed ⟨p. 357⟩will he allowes the sufferings of the Reprobates: this is his iust iudgement. They are smitten, but for their faults. Moerent, & merentur: they lament, and deserue to lament. When the Adulterer is wounded for his lust, he cannot thinke himselfe a patient secundum beneplacitum Dei, according to the will of God. When the vsurer is fetch'd ouer for his extortion, the depopulator for his enclosing, the slanderer for his libelling, all these suffer, but not for conscience toward God, not according to his will. They onely are said to suffer according to his will, that suffer first innocently, then patiently.
1. Innocently; for the wicked suffer: mali malè sed meritò. Evill men bear evil things, but after their deserts. The Pope hath made many Saints from this kind of suffering. Straw-saints, such as Garnet was. If they be first drenched at Tiber, and after hanged at Tyburne, Martyres sunt; they can be no less then Martyrs. Not seldom their names are put into the Rubric: but they stand there in those red letters for nothing else, but to remember their red & bloody actions. They may pretend some show of religion, as if for cause thereof they suffered: but it is not a mean, but a mixed cause: not for faith, but for faction: not for truth, but for treason. It is observed, that as the Physicians say, none die of an ague, nor without an ague: so none of them suffer for the Romish religion, nor without the Romish religion. Therefore as Aristides dying of the bite of a Weasel, exceedingly lamented that it was not a Lyoso these Seminaries may greatly lament that they die not for the Lyon of Judah, but for the Weasel of Roe. Not secundum voluntatem Dei, but secundum voluptatem Antichrists: not according to the will of Christ, but according to the lust of Antichrist. But he can make them amends with Sainting them: men shall kneel to them, pray to them, climb to heaven by the ladder of their merits.