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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 Judge. This is his authority: now there are certain properties required in a just Judge; some of them are found in some Judges, many in few Judges, all perfectly in no Judge, but this Judge of all, Jesus Christ.
The Iudge. This is his authority: now there are certaine properties required in a iust Iudge; some of them are found in some Iudges, many in few Iudges, all perfectly in no Iudge, but this Iudge of all, Iesus Christ.
1. Perspicacitas ingenij: sharpness of apprehension, and soundness of understanding. Ignorance in a private person is a weakness, in a Judge a wickedness. Ignorantia 1Judicis, calamitas innocentis. A Judge ignorant, makes wretched the innocent. It was a curse; aI will give children to be their Princes, and babes shall rule over them: that is, Governors of a childish discretion. It is a woe; bWoe to thee, O Land, when thy King is a child. Justice was anciently painted blind, to show that no favour be given to persons: but it was not meant so blind, as not to discern causes. It is woeful when Judges are so blind, that they are fain to feel the right. No man would have his body come under the cure of a foolish Physician. nor his estate under an ignorant Judge. But this Judge of heaven and earth is so wise, that he knows the very secrets of mens hearts. cAll things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him, with whom we have to do. The wicked can have no hope, that a bad cause flourished over, should pass unconstrued, uncensured. *His eyes are as a flame of fire, clear to search and find out all secrets. Accordingly, he hath now put in his interlocutory, then will give his definitive sentence.