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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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Patience
Is one of the Pillars. Hebr. 10. cYe have need of Patience: that when you have done the will of God, ye might receive the Promise. That when you have suffered before the gates, ye may enter the City. There be three Enemies that assault the soul, before she enter the gates; a Lyon, a Leopard, and a Fox. The Lion is the Devil, who droareth with hideous cries, and bloody jaws. The Leopard is the world, which hath a gay spotted hide; but if it take us within the clutches, it devours us. The Fox is our Concupiscence, bred in us; which craftily espoils our grapes, our young vines, our tender graces. Patience hath therefore an armed Soldier with her, called Christian Fortitude; to give repulse to all these encounters. And what he cannot conquer feriendo, by smiting: she conquers ferendo, by suffering. Uincit etiam dum patitur. She overcomes, even while she suffers. Patience meekly bears wrongs done to our own person: Fortitude encounters courageously wrongs done to the Person of Christ. She will not yield to sin, though she die. She hath the spirit of Esther to withstand things that dishonour God; fIf I perish, I perish.