A01956:1665
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
All vanities are but butter-flies, which wanton children greedily catch for: and sometimes they fly besides 1them, sometimes before them, sometimes behind them, sometimes close by them; yea through their fingers, and yet they miss them: and when th• have them, they are but butterflies; they have painted wings, but are crude and squalid worms. Such are the things of this world, vanities, butter-flies. Vel sequendo labimur, vel assequendo l•dimur. The world it self is not unlike a Artichoke: nine parts of it are unprofitable leaves, scarce the tithe is good: about it there is a little picking meat, nothing so wholesome as dainty: in the midst of it there is a core, which is enough to choke them that devour it.
All vanities are but butter-flies, which wanton children greedily catch for: and sometimes they flie besides 1them, sometimes before them, sometimes behind them, sometimes close by them; yea through their fingers, and yet they misse them: and when th• haue them, they are but butterflies; they haue painted wings, but are crude and squalid wormes. Such are the things of this world, vanities, butter-flies. Vel sequendo labimur, vel assequendo l•dimur. The world it selfe is not vnlike a Hartechoke: nine parts of it are vnprofitable leaues, scarce the tythe is good: about it there is a l•ttle picking meate, nothing so wholesome as daintie: in the midst of it there is a coare, which is enough to choke them that deuoure it.
- 1Anselm. meditat.
O then set not your hearts upon these things: calcanda sunt, as Jerome observes on