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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
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.
He hath latam & expansam conscientiam, a broad conscience; which is like a ••rne door, it can take in a whole load of corn: he can swallow a camel. All ravenous fishes have large and wide mouths: the devil will never mince this mans ••eate, he is able to swallow it whole. (Whereas the good conscience is like the lit•• door to the Sanctum sanctorum, that lets in none but the high Priest, JESUS CHRIST.) He confirms his heart in evil a by voluntary custom; till he can wi•h •ore ease digest the heardest offence, than the stomach of an Ostrich can digest iron •e is pleased with the success, vexed with the prevention of any sinful purpose. If •s plot be crossed, and his hand cannot act that wickedness by day which his head ••th devised by night; he is taken with a fit of melancholy, sick of the sullens; as ••s Ahab and Haman. He thinks it a death that he cannot be suffered to die, it is a ••l to him, that the gates of hell are shut against him.
He hath latam & expansam conscientiam, a broad conscience; which is like a ••rne doore, it can take in a whole load of corne: he can swallow a camell. All ra••nous fishes have large and wide mouthes: the divell will never mince this mans ••eate, he is able to swallow it whole. (Whereas the good conscience is like the lit•• doore to the Sanctum sanctorum, that lets in none but the high Priest, IESUS •HRIST.) He confirmes his heart in evill a by voluntary custome; till he can wi•h •ore ease digest the heardest offence, than the stomach of an Ostrich can digest yron •e is pleased with the successe, vexed with the prevention of any sinfull purpose. If s plot be crossed, and his hand cannot act that wickednesse by day which his head th devised by night; he is taken with a fit of melancholy, sicke of the sullens; as s Ahab and Haman. He thinkes it a death that he cannot be suffered to die, it is a l to him, that the gates of hell are shut against him.