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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 BAD LEAVEN: OR, THE CONTAGION OF SIN.THE BAD LEAVEN: OR, THE CONTAGION OF SINNE.
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 main purpose of it is to discover: 1. That ill conjunction of Moses and Christ, the ceremonies of the Law, with the sanctimony of the Gospel. 2. The free Grace and Justification by the blood of Christ without the works of the Law. In this the Galatians had received a beginning, but now had admitted a recidivation. For this cause the Apostle chides, vers. 7. Ye did run well: who did hinder you that you should not obey the Trueth? Where there is a Concession, and a Conviction: a step; and a stop. The Concession or Step, ye did run well. The Conviction or Stop; Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
The maine purpose of it is to discouer: 1. That ill coniunction of Moses and Christ, the ceremonies of the Law, with the sanctimony of the Gospell. 2. The free Grace and Iustification by the bloud of Christ without the workes of the Law. In this the Galatians had receiued a beginning, but now had admitted a recidiuation. For this cause the Apostle chides, vers. 7. Yee did runne well: who did hinder you that you should not obey the Trueth? Where there is a Concession, and a Conuiction: a step; and a stop. The Concession or Step, ye did runne well. The Conuiction or Stop; Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
In the former he compares Christianity to a race: all men must first be viatores in this valley of tears, before they can be Assessors, and sit with Christ in his kingdom of glory. Only as it agrees with a Race in many things; as labour, it's no idle thing to be a Christian; shortness, it is a Race, the perplexity is recompensed with the brevity: continuance, the runner must hold out the last steppe, if he will obtain the prize. So there are some differences. 1. In other races many run, only one wins the goal: but in this all that run faithfully, shall reign triumphantly. Though they cannot run so fast as others, nor so far as others; yet even they that came at the eleventh hour into the Vineyard, received they penny, so well as they that came at the third. For the Lord regards not Quantum, but ex quanto: not how much, but how well. What ever hour they are called, let them spend the aftertime in a zealous diligence. 2. In other races one hinders another, but in this journey one helps another. The more the merrier: no envy or grudging, either in the way or the goal. Dispar gloria singulorum, sed communis latitia omnium. There may be different glory of some, yet there is a common joy of all. Every