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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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4. The horror of the pains; Into everlasting fire. Fire; of all elements the most violent, therefore fittest to ⟨p. 133⟩describe those pangs. iThe pile thereof is •ire and much wood: the breath of the Lord, like a river of brimstone, doth kindle it. Everlasting; the torments thereof are ever frying, never dying. kWhere the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Aug. Vermis corrodet conscientiam, ignis comburet carnem; quia & corde & corpore deliquerunt. The fire shall torture their flesh, the worm their spirit: because both in flesh and spirit they have sinned. The reprobates shall be packed and crowded together, like •rickes in a fiery furnace, having not so much as a chink where any wind may enter in to cool them.
4. The horrour of the paines; Into euerlasting fire. Fire; of all elements the most violent, therefore fittest to ⟨p. 133⟩describe those pangs. iThe pile thereof is •ire and much wood: the breath of the Lord, like a riuer of bri•stone, doth kindle it. Euerlasting; the torments thereof are euer frying, neuer dying. kWhere the worme dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Aug. Vermis corrodet conscientiam, ignis comburet carnem; quia & corde & corpore deliquerunt. The fire shall torture their flesh, the worme their spirit: because both in flesh and spirit they haue sinned. The reprobates shall be packed and crowded together, like •rickes in a fiery furnace, hauing not so much as a chinke where any winde may enter in to coole them.