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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
THE HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Mount Zion.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Mount Sion.
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.
Mount Zion.
Mount Sion.
Not literally that Mount Zion whereon Solomon built the Temple, and David his Palace. That local Zion became like Shiloh: first, exceedingly and superlatively hloved, afterwards iabhorred and forsaken, like the Tabernacle of Shiloh, the Tent that he pitched among men. This was threatened to that sacred place, as a just punishment of their rebellious profaneness. Therefore will I do unto this house, that is called by my Name, as I have done to Shiloh. It lies in the power of sin, to make the most blessed places ⟨p. 8⟩accursed. kGod turns a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of the inhabitants that dwell therein. Civitatis eversio morum, non murorum casus. The ruin of a City is not the breach of the walls, but the apostasy of manners. Were our Fences stronger then the seven-fold walls of Babylon, the sins within would hurl down the Bulwarks without. If there be Pravilegium among us, there is no Privilegium for us.
Not literally that Mount Sion whereon Salomon built the Temple, and Dauid his Palace. That locall Sion became like Shiloh: first, exceedingly and superlatiuely hloued, afterwards iabhorred and forsaken, like the Tabernacle of Shiloh, the Tent that he pitched among men. This was threatned to that sacred place, as a iust punishment of their rebellious profanenesse. Therefore will I doe vnto this house, that is called by my Name, as I haue done to Shiloh. It lies in the power of sinne, to make the most blessed places