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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.
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This Zion then stands not on earthly foundations; for at the general dissolution, lthe earth with all the works in it, Cities, Castles, Townes, Towers, shall be burnt up. If it were built on a msandy foundation, when the rain, the floods, and winds shall conspire against it, it would fall, and the fall of it would be great. But Zion is built on Christ: nBehold, I say, in Zion a chief corner stone, elect and precious, he that believeth on him, shall not be confounded. This is conspicuous by the Antithesis of Mount Zion with the Gospel, to Mount Sinai with the Law. The Apostle calls that montem [Greek or Hebrew], a mount that might be touched: if this had been upon earth, it had also been contrectabilis, touchable: but it is only spiritual. He alludes to Gods Prophesies and Promises, Evangelium proditurum de monte Sion, that the Gospel should come out of Mount Zion. This is manifest to those that will consider and confer these places, Obad. vers. 21. Esa. 2. 3. My. 4. 2. Come, let us go up to the Mount of the Lord; for out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the word of God from Jerusalem, Esa. 59. 20. with Rom. 11. 26. There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Sinai gave thraldom by Moses, Zion gives freedom and salvation by Jesus.
This Sion then stands not on earthly foundations; for at the generall dissolution, lthe earth with all the workes in it, Cities, Castles, Townes, Towres, shall be burnt vp. If it were built on a msa•dy foundation, when the raine, the flouds, and windes shall conspire against it, it would fall, and the fall of it would be great. But Sion is built on Christ: