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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. › What.THE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOVRITE. › What.
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The Soul, thy soul: not thy Barnes, nor thy crop; neither the continent, nor content: not thy gods, which thou holdest dear; not thy body which thou prizest dearer; but thy soul, which should be to thee dearest of all. Imagine the whole convex of heaven for thy Barn, (and that were one large enough) and all the riches of the world thy grain, (and that were crop sufficient:) yet put all these into one balance, and thy soul into the other; and thy soul out-weighs, out-values the world. What is the whole world worth to him that loseth his soul? The Soul is of a precious nature.
The Soule, thy soule: not thy Barnes, nor thy croppe; neither the continent, nor content: not thy gods, which thou holdest deare; not thy body vvhich thou prizest dearer; but thy soule, which should bee to thee dearest of all. Imagine the whole conuexe of heauen for thy Barne, (and that were one large enough) and all the riches of the world thy graine, (and that were crop sufficient:) yet put all these into one ballance, and thy soule into the other; and thy soule out-waighes, out-values the world. What is the whole world worth to him that loseth his soule? The Soule is of a precious nature.
One in substance like the Sun, yet of divers operations. It is confined in the body, not refined by the body, but is often most active, when her layler is most dull. She is a careful house-wife, disposing all well at home; conserving all forms, and mustering them to her own serviceable use. The senses discern the out-side, the circumstance, the husk of things: she the inside, the virtue, the marrow; resolving effects into causes; compounding, comparing, contemplating things in their highest sublimity. Fire turns coals into fire: the body concocts meat into blood; but the soul converts body into spirits; reducing their purest forms within her dimensive lines. In mans composition there is a shadow of the Trinity. For to make up one man, there is an elementary body, a divine soul, and a firmamental spirit. Here is the difference: In God there are three persons in one essence, in us three essences in one person. So in the Soul there is a trinity of powers, vegetable, sensitive, rational: