A01956:1613
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
THE WAY HOME. › The Manner. In a dream.THE WAY HOME. › The Maner. In a dreame.
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So that now to expect revelation of things by dreams were to entreat God to lend us a candle whiles we have the bright Sun. The superstitious Papists are s•ill full of these dreams: and find out more mysteries ⟨p. 215⟩in their sleep, then they can well expound waking. The Abbot of Glastonbury, when Ethelwold was Monk there, dreamt of a tree, whose branches were all covered with Monks cowls: & on the highest bough one cowl that overtopped all the rest: which must needs be expounded the future greatness of this Ethelwold. But it is most admirable, how the Dominic Friars make shift to expound the dream of Dominic's mother; which she had when she was with child of him: that she had in her womb a wolf with a burning torch in his mouth. Say what they will, a wolf is a wolf still: & that order hath ever carried a burning torch to scorch their mother, the Church. But there is no dream of theirs with out an interpretation, without a prediction. And if the event answer not their foretelling, they expound it after the event. If one of them chance to dream of a green garden, he goes presently and makes his will. Or if another dream that he shakes a dead friend by the hand, he is ready to call to the Sexton for a grave; takes solemn leave of the world, and says he cannot live.
So that now to expect reuelation of things by dreames were to intreat God to lend vs a candle whiles wee haue the bright Sun. The superstitious Papists are s•ill full of these dreames: and find out more mysteries ⟨p. 215⟩in their sleepe, then they can well expound waking. The Abbot of Glastenbury, when Ethelwold was Monke there, dreamt of a tree, whose branches were al couered with Monks cowles: & on the highest bough one cowle that ouertop'd all the rest: which must needs be expoūded the future greatnes of this Ethelwold. But it is most admirable, how the Dominicke Friers make shift to expoūd the dreame of Dominickes mother; which she had when she was with child of him: that she had in her wombe a wolfe with a burning torch in his mouth. Say what they will, a wolfe is a wolfe still: & that order hath euer carried a burning torch to scorch their mother, the Church. But there is no dreame of theirs with out an interpretation, without a prediction. And if the euent answere not their foretelling, they expound it after the euent. If one of them chance to dreame of a greene garden, he goes presently and makes his will. Or if another dreame that he shakes a dead friend by the hand, he is ready to call to the Sexton for a graue; takes solemne leaue of the world, and sayes hee cannot liue.