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 ...
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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 ...
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Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.
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London :: Printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, and are to be sold at his shop neere vnto the little north dore of Saint Pauls, at the signe of the Gun,
1619.
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Church of England -- Sermons.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews XII, 22-24 -- Sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01956.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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My saluation; not others onely, but Mine. A man, and a Christian are two creatures: he may bee a man, that hath reason and outward blessings; he is onely a Christian, that hath faith, and part in the saluation of Christ. God is plentifull saluation, but it is not ordina∣ry to find a Cui; to whom. Much of heauen is lost for lacke of a hand to apprehend it. All passengers in this world presume they are going to heauen, but we may guesse by the throng, that the greater part take the broader way. Christ leauing the earth in respect of his bodily presence, left there his Gospell, to ap∣ply to mens soules the vertue of his death and passi∣on: Ministers preach this Gospell, people heare this Gospell, all boast of this Gospell: yet himselfe foretels, that when he comes againe, he shall scarce find faith vp∣pon earth. No doubt he shall find Christians enow, but scarce faith. Saluation is common, as St. Iude spea∣keth. bWhen I gaue all diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation: but few make it proper to themselues. That God is my saluation, and thy saluation, this is the comfort.