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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
MANS SEED-TIME AND HARVEST: OR, Lex Talionis. › God is not mocked.
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.
If there be any that allows sometimes the Church his body, when the Pope always hath his heart; who though he be in Domo Dei; in Gods house; is Pro Domo Antichristi, is for Antichrists kitchen. Or that keeps a Lady at home, that will not come two furlongs to Church: whereas our Lady travelled as far as Jerusalem. Luke 2. Who must needs be a Papist, because her Grannam was 1so: and grows sick if you but talk of the Communion. And all this to save his Lands on earth, though he lose his Land in Paradise: Let him know, God is not mocked.
If there be any that allowes sometimes the Church his body, when the Pope alwaies hath his heart; who though he be in Domo Dei; in Gods house; is Pro Domo Antichristi, is for Antichrists kitchin. Or that keepes a Lady at home, that will not come two furlongs to Church: whereas our Lady trauelld as farre as Ierusalem. Luke 2. Who must needs be a Papist, because her Grannam vvas 1so: and growes sicke if you but talke of the Communion. And all this to saue his Lands on earth, though he lose his Land in Paradise: Let him know, God is not mocked.
If there be any here, that hath given no Religion yet a full persuaded place in his heart: but because he sees diverse shadows, resolves on no substance. And is like the Bat, that hath both wings and teeth, and so is neither a bird nor a beast. His mind being like a puff of wind, between two religions, as that between two doors, ever ⟨p. 242⟩