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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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But is all this yet short of our purpose, and their chief blessedness? They want a House to celebrate his praise, that hath done all this for them: behold, the Lord giveth them a goodly Temple, neither doth he therein only accept their offerings, but he also gives them his Oracles; even vocal oracles between the Cherubins. I might easily parallel England to Israel in the circumference of all these blessings: but my centre is their last and best, and whereof they most boasted: The mTemple of the Lord, ⟨p. 210⟩and the Law of their God. To answer these we have the Houses of God, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have all, though all in a new manner. 2. Cor. 5. Old things 2are passed away; behold, all things are become new. They had an nOld Testament, we have the New Testament. They had the Spirit, we have a new Spirit. They had Commandments, we have Novum mandatum; the oNew commandment. They had an Inheritance, Canaan; we have a new Inheritance promised. Vids novum coelum, & novam terram; pI saw a new heaven, and a new earth. To conclude, they had their Temple, we have our Churches: to which as they were brought by their Sabbath, so we by our Lords day: wherein as they had their Sacraments, so we have our Sacraments. We must therefore bear the like affection to ours, as they did to that. We have greater cause. There was the shadow, here is the substance: there the figure, here the truth: there the sacrifices of beasts, here of the Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world.
But is all this yet short of our purpose, and their chiefe blessednesse? They want a House to celebrate his praise, that hath done all this for them: behold, the Lord giueth them a goodly Temple, neyther doth hee therein onely accept their offerings, but he also giues them his Oracles; euen vocall oracles between the Cherubins. I might easily paralell England to Israel in the circumference of all these blessings: but my center is their last and best, and whereof they most boasted: The