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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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This is vox respirationis; a gasp that fetcheth back again the very life of comfort. But thou broughtest, &c. We were fearfully endangered into the hands of our enemies; they rode and trod upon us, and drove us through hard perplexities: But thou, &c. If there had been a full point or period at our misery; if those gulfs of persecution had quite swallowed us, & all our light of comfort had been thus smothered and extinguished; we might have cried, Perijt spes nostra, yea perijt salus nostra; our hope, our help is quite gone: He had mocked us that would have spoken, Be of good cheer. This same But is like a happy oar, that turns our vessel from the rocks of despair, and lands it at the haven of comfort. But, &c.
This is vox respirationis; a gaspe that fetcheth back againe the very life of comfort. But thou broughtest, &c. We were fearfully endangered into the hands of our enemies; they rode and trode vpon vs, and droue vs through hard perplexities: But thou, &c. If there had beene a full point or period at our miserie; if those gulfs of persecution had quite swallowed vs, & all our light of comfort had beene thus smothered and extinguished; we might haue cryed, Perijt spes nostra, yea perijt salus nostra; our hope, our help is quite gone: He had mocked vs that vvould haue spoken, Be of good cheere. This same But is like a happy oare, that turnes our vessell from the rocks of despaire, and lands it at the hauen of comfort. But, &c.