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A divine herbal together with a forrest of thorns In five sermons. ... By Tho. Adams.A divine herball together with a forrest of thornes In five sermons. ... By Tho. Adams.
London: printed by George Purslowe for John Budge, 1616London: printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge, 1616
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE GARDEN OR A Contemplation of the Herbs.THE GARDEN OR A Contemplation of the Herbes.
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.
If thou wouldest make Christ good cheer in ⟨p. 66⟩the parlour of thy conscience, bring him the herbs of obedience. Do not say, I would have been as kind and liberal to my Saviour as the best, had I lived in those days, when he blessed the world with his bodily presence. But now I may say with Mary Magdalen: They have taken away the Lord, 1and I know not where to find him. Damn not thy self with excuses. Wheresoever his Church is, there is he; exercise thy piety. Wheresoever his members are, there is he; exercise thy charity. Thou art very niggardly, if thou wilt not afford him a salad, a dinner of herbs. Yet, saith Solomon, A dinner of green herbs with love, is better then a fat Ox with hatred.
If thou wouldest make Christ good cheare in ⟨p. 66⟩the parlour of thy conscience, bring him the herbes of obedience. Doe not say, I would haue beene as kinde and liberall to my Sauiour as the best, had I liued in those dayes, when he blessed the world with his bodily presence. But now I may say with Mary Magdalen: They haue taken away the Lord, 1and I know not where to finde him. Damne not thy selfe with excuses. Wheresoeuer his Church is, there is he; exercise thy piety. Wheresoeuer his members are, there is he; exercise thy charity. Thou art very niggardly, if thou wilt not afford him a sallet, a dinner of herbes. Yet, sayth Salomon, A dinner of greene herbes with loue, is better then a fatte Oxe with hatred.