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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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But I perceive a prevention: I have not time enough to end our misery, much less to enter the speech of our mercy. The journey they make us take through fire and water, requires a more punctual tractation, then your patience will now admit. Two short uses shall send away our Oppressors with fear; our selves with joy.
But I perceiue a preuention: I haue not time enough to end our miserie, much lesse to enter the speech of our mercy. The iourney they make vs take through fire and vvater, requires a more punctuall tractation, then your patience will now admit. Two short vses shall send away our Oppressors with feare; our selues with ioy.
1. For them; let all these tyrannous Riders know, that there is one rides after them; a great one, a just one; even he that rides on the wings of the wind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He that hath a bridle for these Senacheribs, and strikes a snaffle through their jaws; and turns their violence with more ease, then the wind doth a fane on the house-top. Then a horse shall be but a vain thing to save a man, saith the Psalmist. Horse and Master shall fall together.
1. For them; let all these tyrannous Riders know, that there is one rides after them; a great one, a iust one; euen he that rides on the vvings of the wind, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete. He that hath a bridle for these Senacheribs, and strikes a s•affle through their iawes; and turnes their violence with more ease, then the wind doth a fane on the house-top. Then a horse shall be but a vaine thing to saue a man, saith the Psalmist. Horse and Master shall fall together.
Then the covetous Nimrod, that rode on the black beast Oppression, shall be thundered down from his proud height; and the Jade that carried him shall dash out his brains, and lye heavier then a thousand talents of lead on his conscience. His oppression shall damn himself, as before it did damnify others. It was to them a momentany vexation, it shall be to him an eternal pressure of torment.