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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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Perhaps you think to make amends for all, for you will increase the stipend of the vicar. When the Father hath gotten thousands by the sacrilegious Impro priation, the Son perhaps may give him a Cows grass, or a matter of forty shillings per annum. Or bestow a little whiting on the Church, & a wainscot seat for his own worship. Yea more; he may chance to found a little Almshouse, and give twelve pence a piece a week to six poor people. O this oppressor must needs go to heaven, what shall hinder him? But it will be, as the by-word is, in a Wheelbarrow: the fiends, and not the Angels will take hold on him.
Perhaps you thinke to make amends for all, for you will encrease the stipend of the vicar. When the Father hath gotten thousands by the sacrilegious Impro priation, the Sonne perhaps may giue him a Cowes grasse, or a matter of fortie shillings per annum. Or bestow a litle whiting on the Church, & a wainscote seate for his owne worship. Yea more; hee may chance to found a litle Almeshouse, and giue twelue pence a piece a weeke to sixe poore people. O this oppressor must needes goe to heauen, what shall hinder him? But it will bee, as the by-word is, in a Wheelebarow: the fiends, and not the Angells will take hold on him.
For is it not a great piece of charity, to get five hundred pound a year from God and to bestow twenty marks a year on the poor? When David providing for the Temples building, saw how bountifully the Princes and people offered; he gives solemn thanks to God, acknowledging that they had all received this first from him. f For all things come of thee, and of thine 1own have we given thee. The original is, of thine hand. What here the left hand of God gave to them, their right hand returns to God. They did not as our Church sackers and ransackers do; rob God with the right hand, and give him a little back with the left: take from him a pound, and restore him a penny. Well you would know whether God hath given you your wealth; and he says, whatsoever you have gotten by Tenths was none of his giving: and, besides everlasting malediction, it shall make your posterity beggars.