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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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But because the whole speech is allegorical, let us first open the metaphor with the key of proper analogy; and then take out the treasure, such observations as may be naturally ⟨p. 356⟩deduced from it. Most properly our Apostle by leaven understands false doctrine, and by lump the truth of the Gospel: so the sense is this; one heresy infects a mass of truth. Or if we restrain it to persons, by leaven he meaneth false Teachers, and by lump the Church of Galatia: and so a teacher of the bondage to the Law, sours the liberty of the Gospel. gBehold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Or if yet we will look upon it with more general view, we may by leaven understand sin, by lump man, by leavening Infection. Here are three respondences, and all worthily considerable.
But because the whole speech is allegoricall, let vs first open the metaphor with the key of proper analogie; and then take out the treasure, such obseruations as may be naturally ⟨p. 356⟩deduced from it. Most properly our Apostle by leauen vnderstands false doctrine, and by lumpe the truth of the Gospell: so the sense is this; one heresie infects a masse of truth. Or if we restraine it to persons, by leauen he meaneth false Teachers, and by lumpe the Church of Galatia: and so a teacher of the bondage to the Law, sowres the liberty of the Gospell. gBehold, I Paul say vnto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Or if yet we will looke vpon it with more generall view, we may by leauen vnderstand sinne, by lumpe man, by leauening Infection. Here are three respondences, and all worthily considerable.
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