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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 HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Of God.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Of God.
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.
3. Quando sacrum de non sacro, when a holy thing is taken out of a common place: as when the Church is robbed of her possessions and endowments. O the mercy of God, what shall become of England for thus robbing Gods City! Our Patrons are like those Christ whipped out of the Temple; yea worse: for they bought and sold in the Church, these buy and sell the Church it self. tIt is a snare to the man that devoureth that which is holy. A snare hath three properties. 1. It catcheth suddenly: Uzza did but touch the Ark, and presently fell down dead. 2. It holds surely, uUzziah will offer Incense, but the Leprosy (which was his plague) held him to his dying day. 3. It destroys certainly, the earth swallowed Corah and his confederates, when the rest escaped.
3. Quando sacrum de non sacro, when a holy thing is taken out of a common place: as when the Church is robbed of her possessions and endowments. O the mercie of God, what shall become of England for thus robbing Gods Citie! Our Patrons are like those Christ whipped out of the Temple; yea worse: for they bought and sold in the Church, these buy and sell the Church it selfe. tIt is a snare to the man that deuoureth that which is holy. A snare hath three properties. 1. It catcheth suddenly: Vzza did but touch the Arke, and presently fell down dead. 2. It holds surely, uVzziah will offer Incense, but the Leprosie (which was his plague) held him to his dying day. 3. It destroyes certainely, the earth swallowed Corah and his confederates, when the rest escaped.