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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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The Mediator, not a Mediator, but The, That Mediator, ⟨p. 149⟩that only one. lFor there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. God was angry, man was guilty, Christ is the Mediator betwixt them: who being God, could satisfy God, and being man, could suffer for man. We are lost, and desire something to recover us: what shall that be? Mercy? No, God is just: he that hath offended must be punished. Shall it be Justice? No, we have need of mercy: that he who hath offended might be spared. Here, to be so merciful as not to wrong his justice, to be so just as not to forget his mercy; there must be a Mediator. This must not be the world, that was Gods own before, he made it: not Angels, for they are engaged for their own creation; and being finite, cannot satisfy an infinite Majesty by infinite punishment for infinite sins.
The Mediator, not a Mediator, but The, That Mediator, ⟨p. 149⟩that onely one. lFor there is one God, and one Mediator betweene God and men, the man Christ Iesus. God was angry, man was guiltie, Christ is the Mediator betwixt them: who being God, could satisfie God, and beeing man, could suffer for man. We are lost, and desire something to recouer vs: what shall that be? Mercy? No, God is iust: he that hath offended must be punished. Shall it be Iustice? No, we haue need of mercy: that he who hath offended might be spared. Here, to be so merciful as not to wrong his iustice, to be so iust as not to forget his mercy; there must be a Mediator. This must not be the world, that was Gods owne before, he made it: not Angels, for they are engaged for their owne creation; and being finite, cannot satisfie an infinite Maiestie by infinite punishment for infinite sinnes.