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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
THE FOOL And His Sport. › Fools.THE FOOLE And His Sport. › Fooles.
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.
Mundus, cura, caro caelum clausere vocalis. To esteem grace and glory less then Farms, oxen, wives: manna then onions, mecrie then vanity: God then Idols. They may be fitly paralleled with the Prodigal. He 1forsook 1. His Fathers house for a strange country: these the Church, Gods house, for the world; a place wherein they should be strangers: and wherein I am sure, they shall not be long dwellers. 2. His Fathers inheritance for a bag of money: so these will not tarry for their heritage in heaven, but take the bags which Mammon thrusts into their hands on the present. Who but a Fool will refuse the assured reversion of some great Lordship, though expectant on the expiration of three lives: for a ready sum of money not ⟨p. 76⟩enough to buy the least stick on the ground? This i• the worldlings folly, rather to take a piece of• p-coin in hand, then to trust God for the invaluable mass of glory. 3. He forsakes his loving friends for harlots, creatures of spoil and rapine: so these the company of Saints. For the Sons of Belial: those that sing praises, for those that roar blasphemies. 4. Lastly the bread in his Fathers house, for husks of beans: so these leave Christ the true bread of life, for the draff which the swine of this world puddle in. Here is their Folly to fasten on transient delights, and to neglect the pleasures at the right hand of God for evermore.2
Mundus, cura, caro caelum clausere vocalis. To esteeme grace and glory lesse then Farmes, oxen, wiues: manna then onions, mecrie then vanitie: God then Idols. They may be fitly paralelld with the Prodigall. Hee 1forsooke 1. His Fathers house for a strange countrey: these the Church, Gods house, for the world; a place wherein they should be strangers: and wherein I am sure, they shall not be long dwellers. 2. His Fathers inheritance for a bag of money: so these will not tarrie for their heritagein heauen, but take the bags which Mammon thrusts into their hands on the present. Who but a Foole will refuse the assured reuersion of some great Lordship, though expectant on the expiration of three liues: for a ready summe of money not