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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 Papists, when they hear these words, went through fire and water; startle, and cry out, Purgatory: direct proofs for Purgatory. With as good reason, as Sedulius, on that dream of Pharaohs Officer, Gen. 40. 10. A vine was before me; and in the vine were three branches: says that ⟨p. 180⟩1the Vine signifies St. Francis; and the three branches the three Orders derived from him. And as a Pope on that of Samuel: Behold, to obey is better th•n sacrifice: and stubbornness 2is as Idolatry: infers, that not to obey the Apostolic See of Rome, was Idolatry by the witness of Samuel. Or as one writes of St. Francis; that because it is said, Unless you become as little children, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven; he commanded one Massaeus to tumble round like a little child, that he might enter. Or as, when the contention was betwixt the Services of Am•se and Gregory, which should take place; by the common consent both the Mass-books were laid on the 3Altar of S. Peter; expecting some decision of that doubt by revelation. The Church doors being opened in the morning, Gregory's Missal-book was rent and torn into many pieces; but Ambroses lay whole, and open upon the Altar. Which event, in a sober exposition, would have signified the Mass of Gregory cancelled and abolished: and that of Ambrose authentical and allowed. But the wise Pope Adrian expounds it thus: that the renting and scattering of Gregory's Missal intended, that it should be dispersed over all the Christian world, and only received as Canonical. Or as that simple Fryer, that finding Maria in the Scripture, used plurally for Seas; cried out in the ostentation of his lucky wit, that he had found in the old Testament the name of Maria, for the Virgin Mary.
The Papists, when they heare these words, went through fire and water; startle, and cry out, Purgatory: direct proofes for Purgatory. With as good reason, as Sedulius, on that dreame of Pharaohs Officer,