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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
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3. There is a counterfeit path; & the Travellers make as if they walked in love, but their love is dissimulation. It is not dilectio vera, true love, which S. Joh. speaks 1of. nor dilectio mera, as Luther; not a plain-hearted love. They will cozen you unseen, and then like the whore in the Proverbs, wipe their mouths, and it was not they. Their art is Alios pellere aut tollere; to give others a wipe or a wound: & Judas-like they salute those with a kiss, against whom they intend most treason.
3. There is a counterfeit path; & the Travellers make as if they walked in loue, but their loue is dissimulation. It is not dilectio vera, true love, which S. Ioh. speakes 1of. nor dilectio mera, as Luther; not a plaine-hearted loue. They will cosen you vnseene, and then like the whore in the Proverbes, wipe their mouthes, and it was not they. Their art is Alios pellere aut tollere; to giue others a wipe or a wound: & Iudas-like they salute those with a kisse, against whome they intend most treason.