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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.
their Mercers and tailors share the poor's due. Great men gather up their wealth and their credit nearer about them, than in former times. Then it consisted in good house keeping and many servants: now in two or three trunks of apparel and a boy to brush them. Many follow Absaloms fashion, to carry a forrest of hair on their heads: as if that were their grace, which God hath forbidden as ungracious. CHRIST says, the body is more worth than raiment: but some strive to make their raiments more worth than their bodies: like birds of paradise; their feathers are better than their carcasses. To pull down, if it were possible, the height of this pride, consider.
their Mercers and taylors share the poores due. Great men gather up their wealth and their credite neerer about them, than in former times. Then it consisted in good house keeping and many servants: now in two or three trunkes of apparell and a boy to brush them. Many follow Absolons fashion, to carry a forrest of haire on thier heads: as if that were their grace, which God hath forbidden as ungracious. CHRIST saies, the body is more worth than rayment: but some strive to make their rayments more worth than their bodies: like birds of paradise; their feathers are better than their carcases. To pull downe, if it were possible, the height of this pride, consider.
1 Thy beginning; remember the rock from whence thou wert hewen. tFrom following the ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his people: David was not ashamed of his beginning. Say thou art borne noble; yet art thou not made de meliore luto, of any finer clay or metal than the meanest. We have all one common mother: and the proudest dust once dead, shall putrefy and stink for all his perfumes so soon as the poorest. Though all have not vestem communem, yet all have Cutem communem.
1 Thy beginning; remember the rocke from whence thou wert hewen. t