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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.
Now we must learn to see our selves, and this self-contemplation must be made by a Natural glass by a Moral glass by a Spiritual glass.
Now we must learne to see our selues, and this selfecontemplation must be made by a Naturall glasse by a Morall glasse by a Spirituall glasse.
1. Naturally, by looking into the constitution & composition of our own persons; as Paul distinguisheth us into mBody, Soul, Spirit. For thy Body, it was not only nfashioned beneath on the earth, but of the earth. Our ⟨p. 300⟩first Parents were made of the earth: of the earth was their meat: of their meat their blood: of their blood their seed: of the seed our bodies. Corrupta et corrumpentia corpora; bodies corrupt of themselves, and corrupting the souls. For thy Soul, it is a real, spiritual, invisible, and indivisible substance; diffused by God into thy body. Who by placing this soul in thy flesh, hath set thee in the mid-way, betwixt the bodiless Spirits above, and the mindless bodies below. This soul is preserved by neither element nor aliment, but by him only that made her; and to whom, she resteth not, till she returns. For thy Spirit, it is called vinculum and vehiculum, a bond and a Chariot. It is a bond to unite a divine and heavenly soul, to an earthly elementary body; both these extremes meet friendly by this Tertium, a firmamental Spirit. It is called a Chariot, because it carrieth the souls faculties to all organs and parts of the body, and that with wonderful speed.
1. Naturally, by looking into the constitution & composition of our owne persons; as Paul distinguisheth vs into mBody, Soule, Spirit. For thy Body, it was not onely