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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. › Thy Faith.FAITHS ENCOVRAGEMENT. › Thy Faith.
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Thy Faith.
This is the property of that faith that healed him; his own faith. But how could Christ call it His faith, when as faith is Gods gift? It is indeed Datum, so well as mandatum. Commanded, tThis is his Commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ. So also given, uTo you it is given in the behalf of Christ to believe on him. And xThis is the work (so well as the will) of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. But this is not given without means, as the woman of Tekoah said to David; yGOD doth devise means. What's that? aFaith comes by hearing. Now when God hath given a man Faith, he calls it his; Thy faith; for what is freer then gift? So the Prophet calls it their own mercy; bThey that wait on lying vanities, for sake their own mercy. As the water in the Cistern is said to be the Cisterns, though it have it from the fountain.
This is the property of that faith that healed him; his owne faith. But how could Christ call it His faith, when as faith is Gods gift? It is indeed Datum, so well as mandatum. Commanded, tThis is his Commandement, that we should beleeue on the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ. So also giuen,