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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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But for all this Vincet amor mundi: money and wealth must be had, though men refuse no way on the left hand to get it. We may charge them Nummos propter Deum expendere, to lay out their wealth for Gods sake: but they will Deum propter nummos colere, worship God for their wealths sake. We say let the world wait upon religion: they say, let religion wait upon the world. You talk of heaven & a kingdom; but Tutius h• c•lum, quod br•uis •ca tenet. That heaven is surest, think they, that lies in their coffers. As those two Giants bound Mars in chains, and then sacrificed to him: so men first coffer up their wealth, & then worship it. Or if they suffer it to pass their lock & key, yet they bind it in strong chains and charms of usury to a plentiful return.
But for all this Vincet amor mundi: money and wealth must be had, though men refuse no way on the left hand to get it. We may charge them Nummos propter Deum expendere, to lay out their wealth for Gods sake: but they will Deum propter nummos colere, worship God for their wealths sake. We say let the world waite vpon religion: they say, let religion waite vpon the world. You talke of heauen & a kingdome; but Tutius h• c•lum, quod br•uis •ca tenet. That heauen is surest, thinke they, that lies in their coffers. As those two Gyants bound Mars in chaines, and then sacrificed to him: so men first coffer vp their wealth, & then worship it. Or if they suffer it to passe their locke & key, yet they bind it in strong chains and charmes of vsurie to a plentifull returne.
Enough is a language they will never learn, till they come to hell: where their bodies shall have enough earth, their souls enough fire. There are four adverbs of quantitie: Parum, Nihil, Nimis, Satis. Little, nothing, Two much, Enough. The last that is the best is seldom found. The poor have Little: the beggar nothing: the rich two much: but Cui satis? who hath