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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They Ride.
This phrase describes a vice compounded of two dam∣nable ingredients; Pride, and Tyrannie. It was a part of Gods fearefull curse to rebellious recidiuation, Deut. 28. that their enemies should ride and triumph ouer them; and they should come downe very low, vnder their feet. It is deliuered for a notorious marke of the great Whore ofBabylons pride, that she rides vpon a scarlet-colou'rd Beast. Saint Paul seemes to apply the same word to oppression. 1. Thes. 4. That no man oppresse his brother. The originall 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; to goe vpon him, climbe on him, or tread him vnder foote.
O blasphemous height of villany; not onely by false slanders to betray a mans innocence, nor to lay violent hands vpon his estate; but to trip vp his heels with frauds, or to lay him along with iniuries, and then to trample on him! And because the foote of man, for that should bee soft and fauouring, cannot dispatch him, to mount vpon beasts, wilde and fauage affections, and to ride vpon him.