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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. › Of God.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Of God.
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.
Of God.
God is the Proprietary of this City. Est una civitas, & una civitas: unus populus, & unus populus: unu• Rex, & 1unus Rex: una Lex, & una Lex. There are two Cities, two peoples, two Kings, and two Laws. For the Cities, there is aBabylon the great, and bJerusalem the Mother of us all. For the peoples, there is the seed of the woman, and of the Serpent, Corn and Tares, Sheep and Goats, vessels of honour, and vessels of dishonour, Jacob and Esau, Christ and Belial. Nec est tertius, nec ad tertium: there is no third person, nor designment to a third place. ⟨p. 21⟩For the Kings, there is Christ, cYet have I set my King upon Zion the mountain of my holiness: and Satan dthe Prince of the power of the Air. The Prince indeed, not Mundi; sed tenebrarum mundi; not of the world, but of the darkness of the world, 2. Cor. 4. 4. you have both these Kings together; The god of this world had blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of Christ might not shine unto them. For the Laws, Gods Law is,