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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
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THESE words were spoken by our Saviour Christ to the penitent and faithful Leper. For induction I will observe two remarkable circumstances, preceding my Text. First, that Christ did mend him, and then commend him: he did purge him, and praise him.
THESE words were spoken by our Sauiour Christ to the penitent and faithfull Leper. For induction I will obserue two remarkeable circumstances, preceding my Text. First, that Christ did mend him, and then commend him: hee did purge him, and praise him.
1. He mended him, curing first his body, then his soul. His body of the Leprosy, a disease not more loathsome to endure, then hard to cure. The difficulty of healing it, appears by the answer of the King of Israel, upon the receipt of the King of Syria's letters: aAm I God, to kill and make alive, that this man doth send unto me, to recover a man of his Leprosy? intimating that only God is able to cure the Leprosy. His soul of the spiritual ⟨p. 400⟩Leprosy: and this was the perfection of health. For this cure the Prophet so earnestly prays; Sana animam; bLord, be merciful unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. This is a supernatural cure, fit only for the great Physician of souls to perform: the more difficult, Quo minus in natura sit, quod profit: because nature hath no influence in her stars, no minerals in her earth, no herbs in her garden, that can heal it.
1. Hee mended him, curing first his body, then his soule. His body of the Leprosie, a disease not more lothsome to endure, then hard to cure. The difficulty of healing it, appeares by the answere of the King of Israel, vpon the receit of the King of Syria's letters: a