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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
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.
Charity
Is the Roof. nDiligendo perficitur; lo• makes up the building. oNow abideth faith, hope, and charity: but the greatest of these is charity. It is a grace of the loveliest Countenance, and longest Continuance. For Countenance, it is amiable; all love it. The poor respect not thy faith so much as thy charity. For Continuance; faith and hope takes their leaves of us in death: but charity brings us to heaven-door, & ushers us in to glory. pI know not what to say more in thy praise, O charity; then ut Deum de coelo traheres, & hominem ad coelum elevares. Then that thou didst bring down God from heaven to earth, and dost lift up man from earth to heaven. Great is thy virtue, that by ⟨p. 266⟩thee God should be humbled to man, by thee man should be exalted to God.
Is the Roofe. nDiligendo perficitur; lo• makes vp the building. oNow abideth faith, hope, and charity: but the greatest of these is charity. It is a grace of the loueliest Countenance, and longest Continuance. For Countenance, it is amiable; all loue it. The poore respect not thy faith so much as thy charity. For Continuance; faith and hope takes their leaues of vs in death: but charity brings vs to heauen-dore, & vshers vs in to glory.