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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. The Naughty fool is the Covetous. This is the Folly that Solomon saw under the Sun. You heard before of a merry fool; but the very fool of all is the avarous: for he will loose his friends, starve his body, damn his soul, and have no pleasure for it. So saith the Prophet. dHe shall leave his riches in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a Fool. He wastes himself, to keep his goods from wast: he eats the worst meat, and keeps his stomach ever chiding. He longs like a fool, for every thing he sees; and at last may habere quod voluit, non quod vult: have what he desired, never what he desires. He fears not the day of judgment; except for preventing the date of some great obl•gatio. You would think it were petty treason to call a rich man ⟨p. 79⟩fool; but he doth so that dares justify it. Luk. 12. Thou 2fool, this night shall they fetch away thy soul from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
4. The Naughtie foole is the Couetous. This is the Follie that Salomon saw vnder the Sunne. You heard before of a merry foole; but the very foole of all is the auarous: for he will loose his friends, starue his bodie, damne his soule, and haue no pleasure for it. So sayth the Prophet. dHe shall leaue his riches in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be a Foole. He wasts himselfe, to keepe his goods from wast: he eats the worst meate, and keepes his stomach euer chiding. He longs like a foole, for euery thing he sees; and at last may habere quod voluit, non quod vult: haue what he desired, neuer what he desires. He feares not the day of iudgment; except for preuēting the date of some great obl•gatio. You would thinke it were pettie treason to call a rich man ⟨p. 79⟩foole; but he doth so that dares iustifie it.