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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 HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Of the living God.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Of the liuing God.
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.
2. Dij fictitij, feigned gods, as Mars the god of war, Neptune the god of the sea, &c. They were strange gods, that ran a whoring after women, made way to their lusts, if not by flattery, by blood. Scarce ranker villainy in the Devils, then was found in those gods. This the Philosophers objected against Paul, that he was sa setter forth of strange gods. The superstitious Lystrians took Paul and Barnabas for such gods; Dij descenderunt: tthe gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. But Paul, vers. 15. points them to the living GOD that made heaven and earth. Those feigned gods are confounded by this living GOD.
2. Dij fictitij, fayned gods, as Mars the god of warre, Neptune the god of the sea, &c. They were strange gods, that ran a whoring after women, made way to their lusts, if not by flattery, by bloud. Scarce ranker villany in the Deuils, then was found in those gods. This the Philosophers obiected against Paul, that he was sa setter forth of strange gods. The superstitious Lystrians tooke Paul and Barnabas for such gods; Dij descenderunt: tthe gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men. But Paul, vers. 15. points them to the liuing GOD that made heauen and earth. Those fayned gods are confounded by this liuing GOD.