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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. Their ingratitude; they kill those that nourished them. And here I rank with Serpents those prodigies of nature, unthankful persons. Seneca says they are 1worse. Venenum qu•d serpents in alienam pernici•m proferunt, fine s• continent. No• ita vitium ingr•itudinis continetur. The poison which a Serpent casts out to the danger of another, he retains without his own. But the vice of ingratitude cannot be so smothered. Let us hate this sin, not only for others sake, but most for our own.
3. Their ingratitude; they kill those that nourished them. And here I ranke with Serpents those prodigies of nature, vnthankfull persons. Seneca sayes they are 1worse. Venenum qu•d serpentes in alienam pernici•m proferunt, fine s• continent. No• ita vitium ingr•itudinis continetur. The poyson which a Serpent casts out to the danger of another, he retaines without his owne. But the vice of ingratitude cannot be so smoothered. Let vs hate this sinne, not onely for others sake, but most for our owne.
- 1Se•. epist. 48.
4. Their voracity; they kill more then they can eat. And here they would be commended to the Engrossers: who hoard more then they can spend, that the poor might stue for lack of bread. Such a man (if he be not […] a Serpent, a Devil then man) makes his