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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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Not God; he required it in thy life, to sanctify it, and save it, thou wouldest not hearken to him; now he vvill none of it. What should God do with a drunken, profane, covetous, polluted, sensual soul? He offered it the Gospel, it would not believe; the blood of Christ, it ⟨p. 325⟩would not wash and be clean: it is foul and nasty, God requires it not. Or if he require it, it is to judge and condemn it, not to reserve and keep it. Recusabit Deus jam oblatum, quod negabas illi requisitum. God will refuse thy soul now offered, which thou deniedst him whiles he desired.
Not God; he required it in thy life, to sanctifie it, and saue it, thou wouldest not harken to him; now hee vvill none of it. What should God doewith a drunken, profane, couetous, polluted, sensuall soule? He offerd it the Gospell, it would not belieue; the bloud of Christ, it ⟨p. 325⟩would not wash and be cleane: it is foule and nastie, God requires it not. Or if he require it, it is to iudge and condemne it, not to reserue and keepe it. Recusabit Deus iam oblatum, quod negabas illi requisitum. God will refuse thy soule now offred, which thou deniedst him vvhiles hee desired.
Not heaven; those crystalline walks are not for muddy feet, nor shall lust-infected eyes look within those holy doors. mIn no wise shall enter into that City any thing that defileth, or worketh abomination. There is a room without for such, Chap. 22. 15. a black room for black works. What should a worldling do in heaven? his heart so full of envy and covetise, would not brook another's felicity. If there be no gold there, he cares not for coming at it. But he shall be fitted; for as he requires not heaven, so heaven requires not him. It will spare him no place; not that it wants room to receive him, but because his heart wants room to desire it. n