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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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2. Others, to make surer prevention against their sight of heaven, have rolled the whole earth betwixt that and their eyes. These are the covetous, who are rooting down to the Centre. If you tell them of this hope, &c. they answer, Non videmus nisi terram; we see nothing but earth. Well may they say so: for what eyes can see through the vast and condensed body of the earth?
2. Others, to make surer preuention against their sight of heauen, haue rolled the whole earth betwixt that and their eyes. These are the couetous, who are rooting downe to the Center. If you tell them of this hope, &c. they answere, Non videmus nisi terram; wee see nothing but earth. Well may they say so: for what eyes can see through the vast and condensed body of the earth?
3. Others yet have interjected such obscure and pitchy clouds, between their sight and this Sun of glory, that they cannot see. Whether of errors, that darken the light of the truth: Or of affected ignorance, that blinds their own eyes: Or of blasphemous Atheism; they will see nothing, but what they do see. aWhere is the promise of his coming? Since the Fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Nil novi video; I see no new thing: it was so, and it is so. Non aliud vidêre patres, aliudue nepotes Aspicient. Or of rude and crude impieties, which both blear their own eyes, and shadow heavens graces from them. Thus the Devil deals with them, as the Pharisees servants dealt with Christ: first they blind him, and then buffet him, and bid bim prophesy bwho smote him. First he puts out their eyes with their own iniquities, and then leads them about to make himself sport. They cannot see the way to bliss, they have blinded themselves; interposed such clouds betwixt them and heaven, that this glorious light cannot shine unto them. There must be then a clearer space: and this God grants to faith.