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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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Do you wonder that the Lambs cannot live in quiet? consider the number of goats among them. Ezek. 34. 18. They eat up the good pasture, and tread down the residue with their feet: they drink of the fountains, and foul the residue with their feet. My flock are fain to eat that they have trodden, and to drink that they have fouled with their feet. But GOD shall judge and separate. ver. 20. Behold, I, even I will judge between the fat cattle, and the lean cattle. Because they have thrust with side and shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with their horns: therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle. The goats will annoy till they be quite separated. Too many among us have these goatish conditions: they climb up ambitiously to the mountres of preferment, like goats: they pill and bark the Common-wealth, like goats: they lust after women as hot as goats: they trouble the waters of Israel, the peace of the Church, like goats: they tread under feet Gods blessings; like goats: they smell of impiety, as rank as goats: and therefore they must be separated, as goats.
Do you wonder that the Lambes cannot liue in quiet? consider the number of goates among them. Ezek. 34. 18. They eate vp the good pasture, and tread downe the residue with their feet: they drinke of the fountaines, and foule the residue with their feet. My flocke are faine to eate that they haue troden, and to drinke that they haue fouled with their feet. But GOD shall iudge and separate. ver. 20. Behold, I, euen I will iudge betweene the fatte cattell, and the leane cattell. Because they haue thrust with side and shoulder, and push'd all the diseased vvith their hornes: therefore I will saue my flocke, and they shal no more be a prey, and I will iudge betweene cattell and cattell. The goates will annoy till they be quite separated. Too many among vs haue these goatish conditions: they climbe vp ambitiously to the mountres of preferment, like goates: they pill and barke the Common-wealth, like goates: they lust after women as hote as goates: they trouble the vvaters of Israel, the peace of the Church, like goates: they tread vnder feet Gods blessings; like goates: they smell of impietie, as ranke as goates: and therefore they must be separated, as goates.