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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. › Heavenly.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Heauenly.
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.
Now it is called Heavenly in three respects; Of Birth, of Conversation, of Inheritance. Ortus coelestis quoad originem: progressus coelestis quoad conuersationem; finis coelestis quoad translationem. Here is all heavenly. xJerusalem that is above is free, the mother of us all. In hoc quòd dicitur sursum, originis altitudo: quòd Jerusalem, pacis multitudo: quòd libera, libertatis magnitudo: quòd matter, faecunditatis amplitudo: quòd nostrum omnium, charitatis latitudo. The Church in the Creed hath three properties; Holy, Catholic, knit in a communion. The word Above intimates, she is Holy: the word Mother, that she is knit in a communion: the word Of all, that she is Catholic.
Now it is called Heauenly in three respects; Of Birth, of Conuersation, of Inheritance. Ortus coelestis quoad originem: progressus coelestis quoad conuersationem; finis coelestis quoad translationem. Here is all heauenly. xIerusalem that is aboue is free, the mother of vs all. In hoc quòd dicitur sursum, originis altitudo: quòd Ierusalem, pacis multitudo: quòd libera, libertatis magnitudo: quòd mater, faecunditatis amplitudo: quòd nostrum omnium, charitatis latitudo. The Church in the Creede hath three properties; Holy, Catholike, knit in a communion. The word Aboue intimates, she is Holy: the word Mother, that shee is knit in a communion: the word Of all, that she is Catholike.
- xGala. 4. 26 Hugo Card.
Jerusalem is a type of the Catholic Church, in Election, Collection, Dilection. First for Election, yThe Lord hath chosen Zion. That out of all Cities, this out of all Nations. aYe are a chosen generation, a peculiar people: enclosed from the Commons of this world, Gods own appropriation. 2. For Collection; that was walled with stone, this hedged in with grace.