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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
THE HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Mount Zion.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Mount Sion.
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.
2. The felicity that comes by Christ, insinuated by Zion, which was a place of blessedness. This is either Praemissa, or Promissa: already sent into our hearts, or certainly objected by promise to our faiths. It is either assumed, or assured. Inre, or in spe: either that we have, or that we shall have. The happiness we have already by this Mount Zion, consists in three privileges: the Favour of God; Joy of the holy Ghost; and peace of Conscience.
2. The felicitie that comes by Christ, insinuated by Sion, which was a place of blessednes. This is either Praemissa, or Promissa: already sent into our hearts, or certainely obiected by promise to our faiths. It is either assumed, or assured. Inre, or in spe: either that we haue, or that we shall haue. The happinesse wee haue already by this Mount Sion, consists in three priuiledges: the Fauour of God; Ioy of the holy Ghost; and peace of Conscience.
1. In the Favour of GOD, which is to Zion, as the ⟨p. 12⟩klight was once to Goshen: shining there, and no where else. Or as to Gideon, the lFleece on the Mountain is wet with the dew of Heaven, when all the earth is dry besides: This Lux vultus tui, mthe light of thy Countenance, which puts more gladness into our hearts, then the abundance of earthly fruits rejoice the covetous: The wicked shall never see it, unless so much as may increase their anguish, when they must depart from it for ever.
1. In the Fauour of GOD, which is to Sion, as the ⟨p. 12⟩k