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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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Resolution.
There is in the godly a purpose of heart to serve the Lord. This is the child of a sanctified spirit, borne not without the throbs and throws of true penitence. Not a transient and perishing flower, like Jonah's Gourd, Filius noctis; oriens, moriens: but the sound fruit, which the sap of grace in the heart sends forth. Luke 15. When the Prodigal Son came to himself, saith the Text; as if he had been formerly out of his wits: his first speech was, I will arise and go to my Father: and will say unto him; Father, 1I have sinned. And what he purposed, he performed: he arose and went.
There is in the godly a purpose of heart to serue the Lord. This is the child of a sanctified spirit, borne not without the throbs and throwes of true penitence. Not a transient and perishing flower, like Ionah's Gourd, Filius noctis; oriens, moriens: but the sound fruit, which the sap of grace in the heart sends forth. Luke 15. VVhen the Prodigall Sonne came to himselfe, saith the Text; as if he had been formerly out of his wits: his first speech was, I will arise and goe to my Father: and will say vnto him; Father, 1I haue sinned. And what he purposed, he performed: he arose and went.
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