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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.
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Only I must not omit, that the Apostle gives a direct resolution by way of negation, vers. 8. This persuasion com•eth not of him that calleth you. God is no ways the Author of error and sin. He that wills the death of no sinner, will not lead him into the ways of destruction. Indeed he suffers Satan to temptal, but to a diverse purpose: the good to try them, the reprobate to destroy them. The temptations of the godly are for their instruction; of the ⟨p. 354⟩wicked for their destruction. James tells us, that bevery good gift comes down from the Father of lights: is it evil? it cometh not from God. The Apostle telling the Ephesians of lusts, blindness, wantonness, obstinacy; concludes piercingly, Non sic didicistis Christum. cYee have not so learned Jesus Christ. Art thou perverted? thou never learnedst this of Christ. dLet no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God tempteth no man. In him we live, move, and have our being. A Gentile Poet sung it, a Christian eApostle sanctified it, all the creatures in heaven and earth cry Amen unto it. Life is his, whether we live well or ill: motion is his, whether we lift up our hands to prayer or murder: but the pravity and corruption of these is none of his. Is any part of body, or power of soul depraved? This cometh not from him that calleth us. What is then the cause of sin?
Onely I must not omit, that the Apostle giues a direct resolution by way of negation, vers. 8. This perswasion com•eth not of him that calleth you. God is no wayes the Author of error and sin. He that wils the death of no sinner, will not lead him into the wayes of destruction. Indeed he suffes Satan to temptal, but to a diuerse purpose: the good to try them, the reprobate to destroy them. The temptations of the godly are for their instruction; of the ⟨p. 354⟩