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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I will go into thy house.
I will goe into thy house.
The first note hath two strains, Place, Entrance.
The first note hath two straines, Place, Entrance.
The place he purposeth to enter, is described by the Property, Domus. Proprietary, Dominus.
This house was not the Temple, for that was after built by Solomon: but the Tabernacle, or Sanctuary. GOD had his house in all ages; as the wise Creator of all things, he reserved to him a portion in all things; Non propter indigentiam, sed in re cognitionem: not that he had need of them, but that he might be acknowledged in them. Though he be Lord of all Nations in the world, because the Maker of all men, yet he reserved a particular number of men, & appropriated them to himself: and these he called Suum populum, nHis people.