A01956:1669
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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He that will have an oar for every mans boat, shall have none left to row his own. They, saith Melancton, that will know aliquid in omnibus, shall indeed know nihil in toto. Their admiration or dotage of a thing is extreme for the time, but it is a wonder, if it ⟨p. 236⟩out-live the age of a wonder, which is allowed but nine days. They are angry with Time, and say the times are dead, because they produce no more innovations. Their inquiry of all things is not Quàm bonum, but Quàm novum! They are almost weary of the Sun for continual shining. Continuance is a sufficient quarrel against the best things: and the Manna of heaven is loathed, because it is common.
He that will haue an oare for euery mans boate, shall haue none left to row his owne. They, sayth Melancton, that will know aliquid in omnibus, shall indéed know nihil in toto. Their admiration or dotage of a thing is extreame for the time, but it is a wonder, if it ⟨p. 236⟩out-liue the age of a wonder, which is allowed but nine dayes. They are angry with Time, and say the times are dead, because they produce no more innouations. Their inquiry of all things is not Quàm bonum, but Quàm novum! They are almost wearie of the Sun for continuall shining. Continuance is a sufficient quarrell against the best things: and the Manna of heauen is loathed, because it is common.
This is not to be always the same, but never the same: and whiles they would be every thing, they are nothing: but like the worm Pliny writes of, multipoda; that hath many feet, yet is of slow pace. A while you shall have him in England, loving the simple truth: anon in Rome grovelling before an Image: soon after, he leaps to Amsterdam: and yet must he still be turning, till there be nothing left but to turn Turk. To winter an opinion is too tedious: he hath bin many things; what he will be, you shall scarce know, till he is nothing.
This is not to be alwayes the same, but neuer the same: and whiles they would bee euery thing, they are nothing: but like the worme Plinie writes of, multipoda; that hath many feete, yet is of slow pace. A while you shall haue him in England, louing the simple truth: anone in Rome groueling before an Image: soone after, he leaps to Amsterdam: and yet must he still be turning, till there be nothing left but to turne Turke. To winter an opinion is too tedious: he hath bin many things; what hee will be, you shall scarce know, till he is nothing.