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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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Now doth this wealth come on Gods name? is this the blessing of Heaven? Which of your consciences dare think so? Saint Augustine speaks of a certain 1Jester, that undertook to tell the people what they all did most desire. Multitudes came to hear this: to whose expectation he thus answered. […] vultis emere, & chare vendere: You would buy cheap, and sell dear. And this is every mans desire, that desires to be rich, more then to be just.
Now doth this wealth come on Gods name? is this the blessing of Heauen? Which of your consciences dare thinke so? Saint Augustine speakes of a certaine 1Iester, that vndertooke to tell the people what they all did most desire. Multitudes came to heare this: to whose expectation he thus answered. 〈…〉 vultis emere, & chare vendere: You would buy cheape, and sell deare. And this is euery mans desire, that desires to bee rich, more then to be iust.
- 1De Trin. lib. 13. cap. 3.
3. By making others bad with his goods: and here we may fitly proceed to the condemnation of Bribery. aA gift blindeth the eyes of the wise. They that see furthest into the Law, and most clearly discern the causes ⟨p. 266⟩of justice, if they suffer the dusts of bribes to be thrown into their sight, their eyes will water and twinkle, and fall at last to blind connivance. It is a wretched thing, when Justice is made a Hackney, that may be backed for money, and put on with golden spurs, even to the desired journeys end of injury and iniquity.