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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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To this act of God, if we tie the Subject wherein he works; and knit to Eduxisti, Nos: which I called verbum solitudinis, a word of former wretchedness and calamity: we shall find our misery a fit object for GODS mercy; Especially if you set the others malice against our meekness; their wickedness against our weakness: the persons whom God delivers, & the persons from whom, will greatly commend the mercy of our deliverance.
To this act of God, if we tye the Subiect wherein hee workes; and knit to Eduxisti, Nos: which I called verbum solitudinis, a word of former wretchednesse and calamitie: we shall finde our misery a fit obiect for GODS mercy; Especially if you set the others malice against our meeknesse; their wickednesse against our weakenesse: the persons whom God deliuers, & the persons from whom, will greatly commend the mercy of our deliuerance.
It is a pleasure to God, to have his strength perfected in our infirmity. When the danger is most violent in it own nature, and our sense, then is his helping arm most welcome. Esa. 17. In the day of grief, and of desperate sorrow, the harvest shall be great; a plentiful crop of joy. Qui Deus est noster, Deus est salutis. aHe that is our God, is the God of salvation: and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. He delights to have us say in this deep extremity; Eduxisti. Thou hast brought us out. When Jonah was taken up by the Mariners, put from the succour of the Ship; no help in any Rocks, nor mercy in the waters; neither means nor desire to escape by swimming: for he yields himself into the jaws of death with as mortified affection, as if a lump of lead had been thrown into the sea: a man would have thought that salvation it self could not have saved Jonah. Yet Jonah shall not die. Here is now a delivery fit for God, a cure for the almighty hand to undertake.
It is a pleasure to God, to haue his strength perfected in our infirmitie. When the danger is most violent in it own nature, and our sense, then is his helping arme most welcome.