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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.
To the words; the parts are generally two, the Access, and the Object. First, for the Access, Ye are come. What, on your own feet without a Guide? No; eAccessistis, hoc est, fide Evangelica perducti estis. Ye are come, that is, ye are brought by the faith of the Gospel. There is one that brings you; God: every person in the blessed Trinity. It is Opus Patris; fNo man can come except the Father draw him. Opus Filij, gDraw me, we will run after thee. Opus spiritus sancti, hLet thy good spirit lead me into the Land of righteousness Man is by nature in Zedechias case, iblind and lame: Blind, Non inuenisset viam, nisi via inuenisset eum: unless the way had found him, he could never have found the way. Lame, he may know that the Temple of heaven hath a kbeautiful gate; ⟨p. 3⟩Grace: but cannot come thither till God brings him, lo sen his stupefied joints, and put into his hand the Alms of mercy. This done, he may enter into the Temple, walking, and leaping, and praising GOD.
To the words; the parts are generally two, the Accesse, and the Obiect. First, for the Accesse, Yee are come. What, on your own feet without a Guide? No; eAccessistis, hoc est, fide Euangelica perducti estis. Yee are come, that is, yee are brought by the faith of the Gospel. There is one that brings you; God: euery person in the blessed Trinity. It is Opus Patris; fNo man can come except the Father draw him. Opus Filij, g