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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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We complain of the shortness of our lives, yet take the course to make them shorter.
We complaine of the shortnes of our liues, yet take the course to make them shorter.
Neither is the corporal head only thus intoxicate, and the senses drowned in these deluges of riot: but Reason the head of the Soul, and Grace the head of Reason is over whelmed. Rarum […] •ine vitio […] convitio. Revellers and Revilers are wonted companions. When the belly is made a Crassus, the tongue is turned into a Cesar, and taxeth all the world. Great feasts are not without great danger. They serve not to suff ce nature, but to nourish corruption. Luk. 2. Joseph and Mary went up to Jerusalem to the feast with Jesus: 1but there they lost Jesus. Twelve years they could keep him, but at a feast they lost him. So easily is Christ lost at a feast. And it is remarkable there. ver. 46. that in the Temple they found him again. Jesus Christ is often lost at a banquet: but he is ever found in the temple bJude speaks of some, that feast without fear. They suspect not the loss of Christ at a banquet. But cJob feared his children at a feast. It may be my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Let us suspect these riotous meetings; lest we do not only swim, but sink. Let us be like the Deere, who are ever most fearful at their best feeding. d Let us ⟨p. 196⟩walk honestly as i• the d•y: not in ri•ting and drunkenness,