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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
THE WAY HOME. › The Manner. In a dream.THE WAY HOME. › The Maner. In a dreame.
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But if you desire to make any use of dreams, let it be this. Consider thy self in thy dreaming, to what inclination▪ thou art mostly carried: and so by thy thoughts in the night, thou shalt learn to know thy self ⟨p. 216⟩in the day. Be thy dreams lustful? examine whether the addictions of thy heart run not after the bias of concupiscence. Be they turbulent, consider thy own contentious disposition. Be they revengeful, they point to thy malice. Run they upon gold and riches, they argue thy covetousness.
But if you desire to make any vse of dreames, let it be this. Consider thy selfe in thy dreaming, to what inclination▪ thou art mostly carried: and so by thy thoughts in the night, thou shalt learne to know thy self ⟨p. 216⟩in the day. Be thy dreames lustfull? examine whether the addictions of thy heart run not after the byas of concupiscence. Be they turbulent, consider thy owne contentious disposition. Be they reuengefull, they point to thy malice. Runne they vpon gold and riches, they argue thy couetousnesse.
Thus God may be said to teach a man by his dreames still; non quid erit, sed qualis est: not what shall be, but what he is. Not future events, but present condition may be thus learned. Neither day nor night scapes a good man without some profit: the night teacheth him what he is, as the day what he should be. Therefore said a Philosopher, that all waking men are in one common world: but in sleep every man goes into a world by himself. For his dreams do signify to him those secret inclinations, to which he thought himself a stranger, though they were home-dwellers in his heart. Even those fancies are speaking images of a mans disposition. And as I have heard of some that talk in their dreams, and then reveal those secrets, which awake they would not have disclosed. So may thy dreams tell thee when thou wakest, what kind of man thou art. The hypocrite dreams of dissimulation: the proud woman of paint and colours: the thief of robbery and booties the Jesuit of treasons. Let them ask their very sleep, quale sint; what manner of men they ar. For so lightly they answer temptations actually waking, as their thoughts do sleeping. Thus only a man may make good use of his dreams.