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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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I answer, properly nothing: it hath indeed a deficient cause, but no efficient cause. It is a defect, privation, or orbity of that God made; the thing it self he never made. Will you ask what is the cause of sickness? I answer, the destitution of health. If what's the cause of darkness; the absence of the Sun: if of blindness, the deficiency of seeing. What is the cause of silence? no cause: there are causes of speech, organs, air, &c. take away these, what follows but silence? you see the light: who ever saw darkness? you hear speech: who ever heard silence? Man forsook grace: sin came in at the back door. It is a bastard brought into Gods house by stealth. Woe to them that shall root their filthiness in the deity. If they be seduced, to cry, fLord, thou hast deceived us. No, destruction is of thy self, O Israel; in me is thy […]. We have all gotten this sin from Adam; Mulier quam tu, &c. The woman which Thou gavest me; as if GOD had given him a woman to tempt him. Haec est ruina maxima, Deum putare causam ruinae: This is the greatest destruction that can be, to charge God with the cause of ⟨p. 355⟩our destruction. No, O Father of heaven, be thou justified, and the faces of all men ashamed. Let us look home to our own flesh; from thence it cometh that destroyeth. Me, me, adsum qui feci. The Lord put not only this confession in our mouths, but this feeling in our hearts; that all our evil cometh from our selves, all our good from Jesus Christ.
I answere, properly nothing: it hath indeed a deficient cause, but no efficient cause. It is a defect, priuation, or orbity of that God made; the thing it self he neuer made. Will you aske what is the cause of sickenesse? I answere, the destitution of health. If what's the cause of darknes; the absence of the Sunne: if of blindnesse, the deficiency of seeing. What is the cause of silence? no cause: there are causes of speech, organs, ayre, &c. take away these, what followes but silence? you see the light: who euer saw darkenesse? you heare speech: who euer heard silence? Man forsooke grace: sinne came in at the backedore. It is a bastard brought into Gods house by stealth. Woe to them that shall roote their filthinesse in the deity. If they bee seduced, to cry, fLord, thou hast deceiued vs. No, destruction is of thy selfe, O Israel; in mee is thy . We haue all gotten this sinne from Adam; Mulier quam tu, &c. The woman which Thou gauest me; as if GOD had giuen him a woman to tempt him. Haec est ruina maxima, Deum putare causam ruinae: This is the greatest destruction that can be, to charge God with the cause of