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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...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 ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
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Hear this ye covetous, that join house to house, and land to land; by disjoining the societies of men: as if you would leave the whole earth to your babes. Excutit 1natura redeuntem, sicut intrantem. Nature shall as strictly examine your going out, as it did your coming in. Nonne telluris tres tantum cubiti te expectant? do 2not only three cubits of ground allot themselves to receive you? Only a grave remains; and all you that boast of your great lands, shall at that day say, haec terr• mea, and terra tua: this is all my land, this is all ⟨p. 45⟩thy land: even so much room as thy dusts will take up; & all the remainder of mighty Hercules, will scarce fill a little pitcher. A little quantity of ground hath nature proportioned thee, distst thou possess as much as ever the Tempter showed Christ. When certain Philosophers intentively beheld the Tomb of Alexander; saith one: Heri fecit ex auro thesaurum; bodie aurum ex 3eo facit thesaurum. Yesterday he treasured up gold, to day gold treasures up him. Another; Yesterday the world did not content him; to day ten cubits contain him. Socrates carried Alcibiades bragging of his lands to a map of the world, and bad him demonstrate them: Alcibiades could not find them: for alas, Athens it self was but a small and scarce discernible point. A wiser man spake otherwise of his lands. O Ager, quàm multorum fuisti & eris! nunc meus, & postea mescio cuius. O Land, how many mens hast thou been and shalt be! now mine, and hereafter I know not whose. So little ground contents us when we are dead.
Heare this ye couetous, that ioyne house to house, and land to land; by disioyning the societies of men: as if you would leaue the whole earth to your babes. Excutit 1natura redeuntem, sicut intrantem. Nature shall as strictly examine your going out, as it did your cōming in. Nonne telluris tres tantum cubiti te expectant? doe 2