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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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This every eye must see. Let adultery plead that nature is encourager and directer of it; and that she is unjust to give him an affection, and to bar him the action: yet we see it plagued. To teach us that the sin is of a greater latitude, then some imagine it: unclean, fedifragous, perjured. Broad impudence, contemplative Bauderie, an eye full of whores are things but ⟨p. 81⟩jested at: the committers at last find them no jest, when God pours vengeance on the body, and wrath on the naked conscience.
This euerie eye must see. Let adulterie plead that nature is encourager and directer of it; and that she is vniust to giue him an affection, and to barre him the action: yet we see it plagued. To teach vs that the sin is of a greater latitude, then some imagine it: vncleane, fedifragous, periured. Broad impudence, contemplatiue Bauderie, an eye full of whores are things but ⟨p. 81⟩iested at: the committers at last find them no iest, when God powres vengance on the body, and wrath on the naked conscience.
Let drunkenness stagger in the robes of good fellowship; and shroud it self under the wings of merriment; yet we see it have the punishment, even in this life. It corrupts the blood, drowns the spirits, beggars the purse, and enricheth the carcass with surfeits: a present judgement waits upon it. He that is a thief to others, is at last a thief also to himself; and steals away his own life. God doth not ever forbear sin to the last day; nor shall the bloody Ruffian still hescape but his own blood shall answer some in present, and his soul the rest eternally. Let the Seminary pretend a warrant from the Pope to betray and murder Princes; and build his damnation on their tetricall grounds; which have Parum rationis, minus honestatis, Religionis nihil; Little Reason, less Honesty, no Religion. Yet we see, God reveals their malicious stratagems, and buries them in their own pit. Piercies head now stands Sentinel, where he was once a Pioner.