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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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Which lets us see the kind love of the Popish Clergy to their people, and how unfeignedly they desire their going to Heaven; when they pluck out their eyes, & send them thither. So they may grope for it, as the Sodomites did for the door of Lots house. That which they call the 1Mother of Devotion, Ignorance; Augustine calls Pessimā matrem, the worst Mother. Pessimae matris Ignorantiae, pessimae itidem duae filiae sunt: scilicet falfitas, et Dubietas: illa miserior, ista miser abilior: illa perniciosior, ista molestior. There are two evil daughters of the most evil Mother, Ignorance, Falsehood and Doubting: the former is more miserable, the latter more pitiable: that more pernicious, this more troublesome. Let them that plead so impetuously, their Religion authentical from the Fathers, (not cum Patribus reijci•r) read the opinion of a great Father, ⟨p. 287⟩concerning a main point of their doctrine, Ignorance. Chrysostom says; Praecedit scientiae virtutis c•ltum: knowledge 2of virtue must ever go before devotion: For no man can earnestly affect the good he knows not: and the evil whereof he is ignorant, he fears not. So that true love to good, and hatred to evil, cannot occur to a heart nescient of them both. For Scientia conscientiam dirigit, conscientia scientiam perficit. Knowledge rectifies conscience, so well as conscience perfects knowledge. Con must ever be in composition: and so kindly uniting knowledge to devotion, there ariseth Conscience.
Which lets vs see the kind loue of the Popish Clergie to their people, and how vnfainedly they desire their going to Heauen; when they pluck out their eyes, & send them thither. So they may grope for it, as the Sodomites did for the dore of Lots house. That which they call the 1Mother of Deuotion, Ignorance; Augustine calls Pessimā matrem, the worst Mother. Pessimae matris Ignorantiae, pessimae itidem duae filiae sunt: scilicet falfitas, et Dubietas: illa miserior, ista miser abilior: illa perniciosior, ista molestior. There are two euill daughters of the most euill Mother, Ignorance, Falshood and Doubting: the former is more miserable, the latter more pityable: that more pernicious, this more troublesome. Let them that plead so impetuously, their Religion authenticall from the Fathers, (not cum Patribus reijcir) read the opinion of a great Father,