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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
THE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOURITE.THE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOVRITE.
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.
THE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOURITE.
THE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOVRITE.
LUKE 12. 20. But God said unto him; Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
LVKE 12. 20. But God said vnto him; Thou foole, this night thy soule shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?
THIS is the Covetous mans Scripture; and both (like an unflattering glass) presents his present condition, what he is: and (like a fatal book) premonstrates his future state, what he shall be. And because; as no man would be thought of others, or will think himself a worldling; so nor apply to himself the terror of this Text: therefore this Scripture doth both indigitate and single him out, with a Tu es h•mo; and when it hath set himself before himself, it tells him how he shall stand before the Tribunal of God: with a lost name, with a lost soul, with a lost world, with a lost ⟨p. 308⟩and never to be recovered heaven.
THIS is the Couetous mans Scripture; and both (like an vnflattering glasse) presents his present condition, what he is: and (like a fatall booke) premonstrates his future state, what hee shall bee. And because; as no man would be thought of others, or will thinke himselfe a worldling; so nor apply to himselfe the terrour of this Text: therefore this Scripture doth both indigitate and single him out, with a Tu es hmo; and when it hath set himselfe before himselfe, it tels him how he shall stand before the Tribunall of God: vvith a lost name, with a lost soule, with a lost world, with a lost