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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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For Site or placing, the feet are the lower parts of the body, so are affections of the soul. The head is the directer, the foot the carrier: the feet help the head, the head guides the feet. The understanding and affection, are like the blind man and the lame: the lame hath eyes but no feet; the blind hath feet but no eyes. But whiles the blind carries the lame, and the lame directs the blind, both may come to their journeys end. The understanding sees well, but of it self cannot go; the Affection is able to go, but of it self cannot see: let the one direct well, the other walk after that direction, and they vvill bring the soul to heaven.
For Site or placing, the feete are the lower parts of the body, so are affections of the soule. The head is the directer, the foote the carrier: the feet helpe the head, the head guides the feete. The vnderstanding and affection, are like the blinde man and the lame: the lame hath eyes but no feet; the blinde hath feete but no eyes. But whiles the blinde carries the lame, and the lame directs the blind, both may come to their iourneyes end. The vnderstanding sees well, but of it selfe cannot goe; the Affection is able to goe, but of it selfe cannot see: let the one direct well, the other walke after that direction, and they vvill bring the soule to heauen.
For Transition or Passing, as the feet corporally, so these spiritually, move and conduct the man from place to place. Indeed none can come to the fSon, unless the Father draw him: but when he hath given us feet, he looks we should go. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear: he that hath hands, let him work: he that hath feet, let him go. Hence is that exhortation; gDraw near to God, & he will draw near to you. In this foot-manship there is Terminus à quo recedimus, Terminus ad quem accedimus, motus per quem procedimus: From the ways of darkness, from the wages of darkness: to the fruition of light, to the conversation in light. From darkness exterior, interior, inferior. Outward; this land is full of darkness, fraught operibus tenebrarum, with the works of darkness. Inward,