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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.
But all this in Possesso, we have already: there is something more in Promisso, which we shall have: sWe are now the sons of God, but it appears not yet what we shall be. Hast thou here much peace? there is more: here we have desiderium pacis, there pacem desiderij: Here a desire of peace, there the peace of our desires. Hast thou here some joy? there is more: now joy with sorrow, checkerwork, white and black; roses, but thorns with them: then joy with safety, safety with eternity; such joy tas ⟨p. 15⟩shall never be taken from us. There Rex veritas, Lex charitas, 3pax foelicitas, vita aeternitas. If uone day in lower Zion be better then a thousand days in the tents of wickedness, then one day in upper Zion, is better then a thousand years in this valley of tears. If Peter was so ravished with xMount Tabor, where only Christ was transfigured, what is he with this Mount Zion where all are glorified? yHow amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord! If Gods Tabernacles be so lovely, what is his mansion? If there be such joy in the remission of sin, what is there in the abolition of sin? If there be now such sweet peace in thy heart, such music in thy conscience, what mayst thou think there is in heaven? But because non capimus illa, illa capiant nos: we cannot comprehend those pleasures, let those pleasures comprehend us. Good servant, (the joy is too great to enter into thee, therefore) aenter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
But all this in Possesso, we haue already: there is something more in Promisso, which we shall haue: s