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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
GODS HOUSE: OR, THE PLACE OF PRAISES. › The DebtGODS HOVSE: OR, THE PLACE OF PRAYSES. › The Debt
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General mercies require our continual thanks; but new favours new praises. bO Sing unto the Lord a New Song, for he hath done marvellous things. There is a fourfold life belonging to man, and God is the keeper of all. His natural, civill, spiritual, and eternal life. Eloudie man would take away our natural life. Psal. 37. The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. GOD 2keeps it. The slanderous world would blast our civill life, God blesseth our memory. The corrupted flesh would poison our spiritual life, God chides it in Christ. The raging Devil would kill our eternal life; God preserves it in heaven. Unworthy are we of rest that night wherein we sleep, or of the light of the Sun that day wherein we rise, without praising God for these mercies. If we think not on him that made us, we think not to what purpose he made us. When I consider the works of GOD, saith Augustine, I am wonderfully moved to praise the Creator; dQui prorsus ita ⟨p. 197⟩magnus est in operibus magnis, ut minor non sit in minimis: who is so great in his great works, that he is not less in his least. But when we consider his work of Redemption; about which he was (not as about the Creation, six days, but) above thirty yeeres. Where non sua dedit, sed se; he gave not his riches, but himself; and that non tam in Dominum, quàm in seruum et sacrificium: not to be a Lord, but a servant, a sacrifice. We have Adamantine hearts, if the blood of this salvation cannot melt them into praises.
Generall mercies require our continuall thankes; but new fauours new prayses. bO Sing vnto the Lord a New Song, for he hath done maruellous things. There is a fourefold life belonging to man, and God is the keeper of all. His naturall, ciuill, spirituall, and eternall life. Eloudie man would take away our naturall life.