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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.
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4. It is a Fools property, to run on his course with precipitation. Yet can he not out-run the wicked: whose adriving is like Jehu's the son of Nimshi: he driveth as if he were mad. As if he had received that commission, salute no man by the way. bThe wise man seeth the plague and hideth himself, but the fool runneth on and is punished. He goes, he runs, he flies; as if God that rides upon the wings of the wind should not overtake him. He may pass a pace, for he is benefited by the way: which is smooth, without rubs: and down a hill, for hell is a bottom. Facilis descensus Averni. Hast might be good 3if the may were good, and good speed added to it. But this is Cursus celerrimus praeteruiam. He needs not run so fast: for numquamserò ad id venitur, a quo nunquam receditur: the fool may come soon enough, to that place, from whence he must never return. Thus you see the respondency of the spiritual to the natural Fool, in their qualities. Truly the wicked man is a Fool: so Solomon expounds the one by the other. Eccl. 7. Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldst thou 4die before thy time?
4. It is a Fooles propertie, to runne on his course with precipitation. Yet can he not out-runne the wicked: whose adriuing is like Iehu's the son of Nimshi: he driueth as if he were mad. As if he had receiued that commission, salute no man by the way. bThe wise man seeth the plague and hideth himselfe, but the foole runneth on and is punished. He goes, he runnes, he flies; as if God that rides vpon the wings of the wind should not ouertake him. Hee may passe a pace, for he is benefited by the way: which is smooth, without rubbes: and downe a hill, for hell is a bottome. Facilis descensus Auerni. Hast might be good