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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.
Or Detinendo debita, by detaining things due to others Extrudendo vilia, by putting forth base things for good. Corrumpendo utilia, by corrupting with good things others.
Or Detinendo debita, by detaining things due to others Extrudendo vilia, by putting forth base things for good. Corrūpendo vtilia, by corrupting with good things others.
1. By detaining those things that are due to others: & these are either Debts Promises.
1. Debts. Rom. 13. hOwe no man any thing, but to love one another. Indeed there must be some owing, as there must be some lending: without this mutual commerce we are worse then Savages. But we must pay again. iThe wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. Debt is not deadly sin when a man hath no means, but when he hath no meaning to pay. There must be votall restitution, if there cannot be actual. Restore Quoad affectum. thought you cannot Quoad effectum. kFor if their be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, & not according to that he hath not. God reckons that as done which a man lverè voluit, tamet si non valuit adimplere; faithfully would, though not fully could accomplish.