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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.
4. Sin that shall at last be laid heavy on the conscience: the lighter the burden was at first; it shall be at last the more ponderous. The wicked conscience may for a while lie a sleep: but lTranquilitas ista tempestas est: this calme is the greatest storm. The mortallest enemies are not evermore in pitched fields, one against ⟨p. 83⟩the other: the guilty may have a seeming truce, true peace they cannot have. A mans debt is not paid by […] bring: even while thou sleepest, thy arrearages run on. If thy conscience be quiet without good cause, remember that Cedat iniustissima pax justissimo bello: a just war is better then unjust peace. The conscience is like a fire under a pile of green wood, long ere it burn; but once kindled it flames beyond quenching. It is not pacifiable whiles sin is within to vex it: the hand will not cease throbbing so long as the thorn is within the flesh. In vain he striveth to feast away cares, sleep out thoughts, drink down sorrows; that hath his tormentor within him. When one violently offers to stop a source of blood at the nostril, it finds a way down the throat not without hazard of suffocation. The stricken dear runs into the thicket, and there breaks off the arrow: but the head sticks still within him, and rankles to death. Flitting and shifting ground gives way to further anguish. The unappeased conscience will not leave him, till it hath showed him hell; nor then neither. Let then this Fool know, that his now feared conscience shall be quickened: his death-bed shall smart for this. And his amazed heart shall rue his old wilful adiournings of repentance. How many have there raved on the thought of their old sins; which in the days of their hot lust they would not think sins. Let not then the Fool make a mock at sin.
4. Sinne that shall at last be laid heauy on the conscience: the lighter the burthen was at first; it shall be at last the more ponderous. The wicked conscience may for a while lie a sleepe: but lTranquilitas ista tempestas est: this calme is the greatest storme. The mortallest enemies are not euermore in pitched fields, one against ⟨p. 83⟩