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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
The second Sermon. › Our selves.The second Sermon. › Our selues.
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2. By malice, in abusing them to unnecessary quarrels & contentions of Law; to the hindrance of Gods peace and their neighbours welfare. When men will put out one of their own eyes, to put out both their neighbours: Nay both their own, for one of his. Thus what they get by the happiness of foreign peace, they spend in civill wars. How unnatural is it for one hand thus to beat and wound another! Either of them gets a shell: You know who goes away with the meat.
2. By malice, in abusing them to vnnecessary quarrels & contentions of Law; to the hindrance of Gods peace and their neighbours welfare. When men will put out one of their owne eyes, to put out both their neighbours: Nay both their owne, for one of his. Thus what they get by the happines of forraine peace, they spend in ciuill warres. How vnnaturall is it for one hand thus to beate and wound another! Eyther of them gets a shell: You know who goes away with the meate.
3. By riot. Quicquid dant, dant vel veneri vel ventri. They spend more upon the Tavern, then upon the Tabernacle: at the house of plays, then at the house of praise: more upon their own hounds, then upon Gods poor children. Julius Caesar seeing women carry little Dogs under their arms, asked if they had no children. God asketh you, that give your bread to dogs, if he hath no children for your charity. But they answer all, as the wicked in the 12. Psalm. eOur tongues are our own. They stop the mouth of all exhortation to frugal courses, with It is my own: a man may spend his own as he list: I wast none of your goods: and what hath friend in private, or preacher in public to do with it? But they shall find one day, that they were but Stewards, that these Riches were but entrusted to them, and they shall give a strict account. Nothing is properly a mans own, but Peccata sua, his sins. Thy sins are thine own, thy riches Gods.
3. By ryot. Quicquid dant, dant vel veneri vel ventri. They spend more vpon the Tauerne, then vpon the Tabernacle: at the house of playes, then at the house of prayse: more vpon their owne hounds, then vpon Gods poore children. Iulius Caesar seeing women carrie little Dogs vnder their armes, asked if they had no children. God asketh you, that giue your bread to dogs, if he hath no children for your charitie. But they answere all, as the wicked in the 12. Psalme.