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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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2. The second rule of using our riches well, is ⟨p. 261⟩(when God hath his own, in the next place) tribuere cuique suum: to render every man his due. If they be Gods gifts, they must be disposed with justice. This is double; Commutative, & distributive Justice. The one Arithmetical, the other Geometrical. Arithmetical is to give every one alike: Geometrical is to give every one according to his deserts. 1, Cùm res adaequaturrei. 2. Cùm res adaequatur personae. There are two rules for him that would be just: a negative, and an affirmative rule. 1. The negative. gDo that to no man which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. Quod tibi non vis, alterine facias. 2. The affirmative. hWhatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Not what every man out of his disordered passions would have another do to him: but what in his composed and deliberate judgment he approves done to himself, let him do that to others. Wouldst thou be relieved? Relieve. Wouldest thou borrow? lend.
2. The second rule of vsing our riches well, is ⟨p. 261⟩(when God hath his owne, in the next place) tribuere cuique suum: to render euery man his due. If they bee Gods gifts, they must be disposed with iustice. This is double; Commutatiue, & distributiue Iustice. The one Arithmeticall, the other Geometricall. Arithmeticall is to giue euerie one alike: Geometricall is to giue euerie one according to his deserts. 1, Cùm res adaequaturrei. 2. Cùm res adaequatur personae. There are two rules for him that would be iust: a negatiue, and an affirmatiue rule. 1. The negatiue. gDoe that to no man which thou wouldest not haue done to thy selfe. Quod tibi non vis, alterine facias. 2. The affirmatiue. hWhatsoeuer ye would that men should doe to you, doe ye euen so to them. Not what euerie man out of his disordered passions would haue another doe to him: but what in his composed and deliberate iudgment he approues done to himselfe, let him doe that to others. Wouldst thou be relieued? Relieue. Wouldest thou borrow? lend.