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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.
1. Sour to God, who hates nothing but sin. He made man, and man made sin: He loves his own creature, but he hates mans creature. Sin is sourer to him then the devill: For, Non odit peccatum Diaboli cansa, sed Diabolum peccati causa: He hates not sin for the devils sake, but the devil for sins sake. It is so sour to him, that for one sin h•e plagued a world of men: how will he plague one man for a world of sin! So sour, that he could relish no man for it, till he had killed it in the sides of Jesus Christ. We are all so sour, that but for this sweetening and perfume, we could never have been endured. The Scripture, for our understanding, ascribes senses to God: and we find every sense displeased with sin.
1. Sowre to God, who hates nothing but sinne. He made man, and man made sinne: Hee loues his owne creature, but he hates mans creature. Sinne is sowrer to him then the deuill: For, Non odit peccatum Diaboli cansa, sed Diabolum peccati causa: He hates not sinne for the deuils sake, but the deuill for sinnes sake. It is so sowre to him, that for one sinne h•e plagued a world of men: how will he plague one man for a world of sinne! So sowre, that he could rellish no man for it, till hee had killed it in the sides of Iesus Christ. We are all so sowre, that but for this sweetning and perfume, we could neuer haue beene endured. The Scripture, for our vnderstanding, ascribes senses to God: and we finde euery sense displeased with sinne.
1. It is offensive to his smelling: He tells the Jews ⟨p. 375⟩that their sins did stink in his nostrils. So did the old World offend him, that he washed & soused in a deluge: and then after Noah's sacrifice, is said to bSmell a savour of rest. For this cause they had their Altar of Incense; and God commanded a Perfume to be made to him.