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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
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3 For foulness. The squalid earth (for we speak not here of any good ground) is called Lutulenta terra; miry and noisome: yet is it neat and clean in comparison of a sin-contaminated soul. The body was taken from the earth; not the Soul: the body shall resolve to the earth; not the soul: yet the polluted soul is more sordid, then either a leprous body, or a muddy earth. In the eye of GOD, there is no beauty so acceptable, no foulness so detestable, as the souls. The Dove carried the praise of beauty from the Peacock, by the Eagles judgement: that though the Peacock living had the fairer plumes, yet dead he hath but a black liver. Gods judgement of all mens fairness, is by the liver, the cleanness of the heart in his eye-sight.
3 For foulenesse. The squalid earth (for we speake not heere of any good ground) is called Lutulenta terra; miery and noysome: yet is it neate and cleane in comparison of a sinne-contaminated soule. The body was taken from the earth; not the Soule: the body shall resolue to the earth; not the soule: yet the polluted soule is more sordid, then either a leprous body, or a muddy earth. In the eye of GOD, there is no beautie so acceptable, no foulenesse so detestable, as the soules. The Doue carried the prayse of beautie from the Peacocke, by the Eagles iudgement: that though the Peacocke liuing had the fayrer plumes, yet dead he hath but a blacke liuer. Gods iudgement of all mens fairenesse, is by the liuer, the cleanesse of the heart in his eye-sight.
4 For obscurity and darkness; the earth is called a place of black darkness, the land of forgetfulness. So Job and David term it. The wicked Soul is full of darkness, thickness of sight, caecity of understanding; not seeing the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. Our Gospel is hid to those that are lost. 1Whose minds the god of this world hath blinded. 2There is in them Hebetudo mentis, which is acutae rationis obtusio, carnalis intemperantiae crassis sensibus inducta. They are so utterly ignorant of heaven, that (as it is in the Proverb) ne pictum quidem viderunt: they have