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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.
Of him that called you: He hath called you to liberty, will you entangle your selves in new bondage? who pities him that being redeemed from prison, wilfully recasts himself into it? Or that saved from the fire, will run into it again? Art thou Titio ereptus, and yet hast a mind to be burned? He hath called you not to the ceremonies, but to their Antitype; not to those legal Lambs, but to that Evangelical Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world. Will you be directed by Lamps, when the Sun is risen? no, he hath called you to the truth and comforts of the Gospel; obey that call: And then he that hath persuaded you to virtue, by calling you to grace, shall crown you with eternal glory.
Of him that called you: He hath called you to liberty, will you intangle your selues in new bondage? who pitties him that being redeemed from prison, wilfully recasts himselfe into it? Or that saued from the fire, will runne into it againe? Art thou Titio ereptus, and yet hast a mind to be burned? He hath called you not to the ceremonies, but to their Antitype; not to those legall Lambes, but to that Euangelicall Lambe of God, that taketh away the sins of the world. Will you be directed by Lampes, when the Sunne is risen? no, hee hath called you to the truth and comforts of the Gospell; obey that call: And then he that hath perswaded you to vertue, by calling you to grace, shall crowne you with eternall glory.
Now one argument whereby the Apostle debtors them from blending Judaism with Christianity, is derived from the danger of corrupting the doctrine of the Gospel: A little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump. One ceremony of the legal rites observed with an opinion of necessity, soureth all that sweetness of redemption that cometh by Christ. This Divine Aphorism may thus logically be resolved; into a Predicate, Subject, and Copula. The Predicate, leaven: the Subject, lump: the Copula, leaveneth. Or thus there is a thing Active; Leaven. Factive, soureth Passive, the lump.
Now one argument whereby the Apostle deterres them from blending Iudaisme with Christianity, is deriued from the danger of corrupting the doctrine of the Gospell: A little Leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe. One ceremony of the legall rites obserued with an opinion of necessity, sowreth all that sweetnesse of redemption that commeth by Christ. This Diuine Aphorisme may thus logically be resolued; into a Predicate, Subiect, and Copula. The Predicate, leauen: the Subiect, lumpe: the Copula, leaueneth. Or thus there is a thing Actiue; Leauen. Factiue, sowreth Passiue, the lumpe.