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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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These are they that rdevour a man and his heritage. Therefore Christ calls their riches, not [Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew]; things without them, as if they had swallowed them down into their bowels. The phrase is used by Job 2sHe hath swallowed down riches, & he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. When this vomit is given them, you shall see strange stuff come from them. Here the raw and undigested gobbets of usury; there the mangled morsels of bloody oppressions: here five or six impropriate Churches, there thousand acres of decayed tillage: here a whole casket of bribes, there whole houses and patrimonies of undone orphans; ⟨p. 143⟩here an Enclosure of commons, there a vastation of proper and sanctified things. Rip up their consciences, and this is the stuffing of their hearts.
These are they that rdevoure a man and his heritage. Therefore Christ calles their riches, not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; things without them, as if they had swallowed them down into their bowels. The phrase is vsed by Iob 2sHe hath swallowed downe riches, & he shall vomit them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly. When this vomit is given them, you shall see strange stuffe come from them. Here the raw and vndigested gobbets of vsurie; there the mangled morsels of bloudy oppressions: here fiue or sixe impropriate Churches, there thousand acres of decayed tillage: here a whole casket of bribes, there whole houses and patrimonies of vndone orphans; ⟨p. 143⟩here an Inclosure of commons, there a vastation of proper and sanctified things. Rip vp their conscie nces, and this is the stuffing of their hearts.