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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
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.
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.
For is it not a great piece of charitie, to get fiue hundred pound a yeare from God and to bestow twenty markes a yeare on the poore? When Dauid prouiding for the Temples building, saw how bountifully the Princes and people offered; he giues solemne thankes to God, acknowledging that they had all receiued this first from him. f For all things come of thee, and of thine 1owne haue we giuen thee. The originall is, of thine hand. What here the left hand of God gaue to them, their right hand returnes to God. They did not as our Churchsackers and ransackers doe; robbe God with the right hand, and giue him a litle backe with the left: take from him a pound, and restore him a peny. Well you would know whether God hath giuen you your wealth; and he sayes, whatsoeuer you haue gotten by Tenths was none of his giuing: and, besides euerlasting malediction, it shall make your posteritie beggars.