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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.
3. Dij manufacti, gods made with mens hands; Idols, but these are udead gods. Yea, not only dead, but nothing. ⟨p. 30⟩xAn Idol is nothing in the world. It is true that they have matter and form: the gold, brass, wood, or stone whereof they are made, be substances: they have something in esse naturae, nothing in esse vitae: they have stuff, but no life in them. yThey have eyes and see not, there is no breath in their mouths. S. Paul commends in the Thessalonians this happy conversion, afrom dead idols to the living God. O that it were as easy to confute Idolaters, as it is to confound Idols. Res hominis conculcat talem Deum. No Idol is so great a god, but the foot of man can kick it down.
3. Dij manufacti, gods made with mens hands; Idols, but these are udead gods. Yea, not onely dead, but nothing. ⟨p. 30⟩xAn Idol is nothing in the world. It is true that they haue matter and forme: the gold, brasse, wood, or stone whereof they are made, be substances: they haue something in esse naturae, nothing in esse vitae: they haue stuffe, but no life in them. yThey haue eyes and see not, there is no breath in their mouthes. S. Paul commends in the Thessalonians this happy conuersion, afrom dead idols to the liuing God. O that it were as easie to confute Idolaters, as it is to confound Idols. Res hominis conculcat talem Deum. No Idol is so great a god, but the foote of man can kicke it downe.