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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
FAITHS ENCOURAGEMENT. › Arise,FAITHS ENCOVRAGEMENT. › Arise,
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3. The third Bell is the Mean; and this is Suspiria gemitusque morientium; the cries & groans of the dying. Another's Passing-bell is thy warning-bell. Death snatcheth here and there about us, thousands on our left, ten thousands on our right: yet as if we had a Supersedeas, or Protection against it, we neither relent nor repent. Our security is argued of the more madness, because we have so common motions and monitions of death. Yet Nonerimus memores esse necesse mori. How horrible is it to be drunk in a charnel house? As Christ spake, Let the dead bury the dead: So we bring to the Church dead bodies with deader souls.⟨p. 415⟩ Forma, favour populi, fervour inuenilis, opesque, Surripuere tibi noscere quid sit homo. We confess our selves mortal, yet we live as if death had no quarrel against us. This Bell is the Mean, but it is too mean to wake us.
3. The third Bell is the Meane; and this is Suspiria gemitusque morientium; the cryes & grones of the dying. Anothers Passing-bell is thy warning-bell. Death snatcheth here and there about vs, thousands on our left, tenne thousands on our right: yet as if we had a Supersedeas, or Protection against it, we neither relent nor repent. Our securitie is argued of the more madnesse, because we haue so common motions and monitions of death. Yet Nonerimus memores esse necesse mori. How horrible is it to be drunke in a charnell house? As Christ spake, Let the dead bury the dead: So we bring to the Church dead bodies with deader soules.⟨p. 415⟩ Forma, fauor populi, feruor inuenilis, opesque, Surripuere tibi noscere quid sit homo. We confesse our selues mortall, yet we liue as if death had no quarrell against vs. This Bell is the Meane, but it is too meane to wake vs.
4. The fourth Bell is the Counter-tenor: vox pauperum, the cry of the poor. This bell rings loud, either to us for mercy, or against us for cruelty. Let us know, that if it cannot waken us, it shall waken God against us.