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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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God charged our first Parents, that they should not ⟨p. 232⟩cate of the forbidden fruit: If you do, you shall dye. The devil comes first with a flatte Negative; hNon mori•mini: Ye shall not dye. Then with subtle promises; Ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. But what is the event? They eat, and they die; are instantly made mortal, and should have died for ever, but for a Saviour. GOD bids Saul slay all in Amalek, 1. Sam. 15. Smite Amalek, utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not. Yet Saul 2spares Agag, and the fat cattle. Why is this a fault? I spared the best of the cattle for Sacrifice to the Lord. Will not this serve? No: God rejects Saul from being King over Israel; who had rejected God from being King over Saul. Be not deceived, God is not miked.
God charged our first Parents, that they should not ⟨p. 232⟩cate of the forbidden fruite: If you doe, you shall dye. The deuill comes first with a flatte Negatiue; hNon mori•mini: Ye shall not dye. Then with subtile promises; Yee shall be as Gods, knowing good and euill. But what is the euent? They eate, and they die; are instantly made mortall, and should haue died for euer, but for a Sauiour. GOD bids Saul slay all in Amalek, 1. Sam. 15. Smite Amalek, vtterly destroy all that they haue, and spare them not. Yet Saul 2spares Agag, and the fatte cattell. Why is this a fault? I spared the best of the cattell for Sacrifice to the Lord. Will not this serue? No: God reiects Saul from beeing King ouer Israel; who had reiected God from beeing King ouer Saul. Be not deceiued, God is not mked.