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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. Observe, that God now speaks so to the Covetous, that he will be heard: he preacheth another kind of Sermon to him then ever he did before: a fatal, final, funeral Sermon, a Text of Judgement; This night shall they fetch away thy soul. For this is Gods Lecture, himself reads it; But God said. He had preached to the worldling often before; and those Sermons were of three sorts.
2. Obserue, that God now speakes so to the Couetous, that he will be heard: he preacheth another kind of Sermon to him then euer he did before: a fatall, finall, funerall Sermon, a Text of Iudgement; This night shal they fetch away thy soule. For this is Gods Lecture, himselfe reades it; But God said. Hee had preached to the vvordling often before; and those Sermons were of three sorts.
1. By his Word. But cares of the world choke this Seed: the heart goes after covetousness; even whiles the flesh sits under the pulpit. This is the devils three-winged arrow, (wealth, pride, voluptuousness) whereby he nails the very heart fast to the earth. It is his talent of lead, which he hangs on the feet of the soul, the affections; ⟨p. 315⟩that keeps her from mounting up into heaven: with the printed beauty of this filthy Harlot he bewitcheth their minds, steals their desires from Christ, and sends them a whoring to the hot Stews of hell. Thus is Gods first Sermon quite lost.
1. By his Word. But cares of the world choake this Seed: the heart goes after couetousnesse; euen whiles the flesh sits vnder the pulpit. This is the deuills three-wing'd arrow, (wealth, pride, voluptuousnesse) vvhereby hee nailes the very heart fast to the earth. It is his talent of lead, which he hangs on the feet of the soule, the affections; ⟨p. 315⟩that keepes her from mounting vp into heauen: with the printed beauty of this filthy Harlot hee bewitcheth their mindes, steales their desires from Christ, and sends them a whoring to the hote Stewes of hell. Thus is Gods first Sermon quite lost.