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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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Indeed this Head doth not only take their blows, as meant at him; but he even suffers with us. bSaul, why persecutest thou me? Saul strikes on earth, Christ Jesus suffers in heaven. There is more lively sense in the Head, then in other members of the body. Let but the toe ache, and the head manifests by the countenance a sensible grief. The body of the Church cannot suffer, without the sense of our blessed Head. Thus saith Paul, cThe sufferings of ⟨p. 171⟩Christ abound in us. These afflictions are the showers that follow the great storm of his passion. dWe fill up that which is behind, of the affliction of Christ in our flesh. We must be content for him, as he was for us, to weep, and groan, and bleed, and dye, that we may reign. If we esow not in tears, how shall we look to reap in joy? how shall we shine like stars in heaven, if we go not through this fiery trial? or land at the haven of bliss, if we pass not the waves of this troublesome water?
Indeed this Head doth not onely take their blowes, as meant at him; but he euen suffers with vs. bSaul, why persecutest thou me? Saul strikes on earth, Christ Iesus suffers in heauen. There is more liuely sense in the Head, then in other members of the body. Let but the toe ake, and the head manifests by the countenance a sensible greefe. The body of the Church cannot suffer, without the sense of our blessed Head. Thus saith Paul, cThe sufferings of ⟨p. 171⟩Christ abound in vs. These afflictions are the showres that follow the great storme of his passion. d