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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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Will not all this quarrelling serve? yet still Pauls proposition must have some opposition. Though we must give something to our Teachers, yet this charge doth not fetch in Tithes. This, this is the point: prove this, and you shall find many a great mans soul, as his Impropriations cannot be, in a damnable Lapse. I would say something of it; but me thinks I hear my friends telling me, what Sadolet said to Erasmus. Erasmus would prove, that worshipping▪ of Images might well be abolished. I grant (quoth Sadolet) thy opinion is good: but this point should not be handled, because it vvill not be granted.
Will not all this quarrelling serue? yet still Pauls proposition must haue some opposition. Though we must giue something to our Teachers, yet this charge doth not fetch in Tithes. This, this is the point: proue this, and you shall finde many a great mans soule, as his Impropriations cannot be, in a damnable Lapse. I would say somthing of it; but me thinkes I heare my friends telling me, what Sadolet said to Erasmus. Erasmus would proue, that worshipping▪ of Images might well bee abolished. I grant (quoth Sadolet) thy opinion is good: but this point should not bee handled, because it vvill not bee granted.
I am sure, Gods law gives tithes to his Church: but say they, that Law is abolished; repealed by a new Act of Parliament. Paul in his Epistle frees us from the old Law. Indeed Paul speaking of our Sanctification and Salvation; notes our deliverance from the Lusts of the Flesh, ⟨p. 227⟩and from the lists of the Law. From the Ceremonial Law wholly, from the Moral only so far as it shall not condemn those in Christ. But who, save an Advocate of Mammon, will limit Tenths to Ceremony? God requires a portion of our Time, of our Goods: the Seventh of our time, the Tenth of our goods: and we have those, that turn both into Ceremony. Such make the Sabbath it self a mere Ceremony. But be not deceived, God is not mocked.