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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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3. But if it bring not present Judgement, it is the more fearful. The less punishment wickedness receives here, the more is behind. God strikes those ⟨p. 82⟩here, whom he means to spare hereafter; and corrects that son which he purposeth to save. But he scarce meddles with them at all, whom he intends to beat once for all. The Almond tree is forborne them, who are bequeathed to the boiling Pot. There is no rod to scourge such in present; so they go with whole sides to hell. The purse and the flesh scapes, but the soul pays for it. This is Misericordia puniens, a grievous mercy: when men are spared for a while, that they may be spilled for ever. This made that good Saint cry; Lord here afflict, cut, burnt, torture me; Ut in aeternum parcas; 1that for ever thou wilt save me. No sorrow troubles the wicked, no disturbance embitters their pleasures: But remember saith Abraham to the merry-lived rich man, iThou wert delighted, but thou art tormented. Tarditas supplicij gravitate pensatur: and he will strike with iron hands, that came to strike with leaden feet. Tuli, nunquid semper feram? no; their hell-fire shall be so much the hotter, as God hath been cool and tardy in the execution of his vengeance. This is a Judgement for Sin that comes invisible to the world, insensible to him on whom it lights. To be kgiven over to a reprobate mind; to a hard and impenitent heart. If any thing be vengeance, this is it. I have read of plagues, famine, death come tempered with love and mercy: this never but in anger. Many taken with this spiritual lethargy sing in Taverns, that should howl with dragons: and sleep out Sabbaths and Sermons, whose awaked souls would rend their hearts with anguish. Fools then only make a mock at sin.
3. But if it bring not present Iudgement, it is the more fearefull. The lesse punishment wickednes receiues here, the more is behind. God strikes those ⟨p. 82⟩here, whom he meanes to spare hereafter; and corrects that sonne which he purposeth to saue. But hee scarce meddles with them at all, whom hee intends to beate once for all. The Almond tree is forborne them, who are bequeathed to the boiling Potte. There is no rod to scourge such in present; so they goe with whole sides to hell. The purse and the flesh scapes, but the soule payes for it. This is Misericordia puniens, a greeuous mercie: when men are spared for a while, that they may be spilled for euer. This made that good Saint cry; Lord here afflict, cut, burnt, torture me; Vt in aeternum parcas;