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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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By these wretches lewdness among us, the Romish adversaries take advantage to slander our Religion. They say our Profession is a doctrine of liberty, that we preach for faith, and against works: but Wisdom is justified of •er children. Thus we preach, iTribulation and anguish upon ⟨p. 365⟩every soul of man that doth evil: but glory and peace to every man that worketh good. And kevery man that hath hope in Christ, purifieth himself. And this is lPure religion, and undefiled before God; to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep our selves unspotted from the World. Our faith is not an [Greek or Hebrew], imagined in the brain; but an [Greek or Hebrew], seen in our life. We teach that Justification and Sanctification are inseparable friends. If men will not be reformed, we conceal not from them Gods renunciation; mIf any man will be filthy, let him be filthy still. Our dissolute conversation cannot annihilate the truth of our doctrine. Howsoever the Samaritan, not the Jew, relieved the wounded man, yet the Jews religion was true, and not the Samaritans. How polluted soever we are, yet their hands are not clean enough to take up stones against us. If they rejoice and triumph in mens wickedness, they profess imitation of the devil in a cursed mirth. Good Christians have learned to nmourn for abominations, not to laugh at them. To return to those dissolute wretches; they sing not with the Church a Tenebo t• Domine, oI held him, and I would not let him go: all their delight is in a Nunc dimittis, they are glad to be gone. It were not amiss if we were well rid of them, being thus incorrigible. p