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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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He that would mount, cares not what attendance he dances at all hours, upon whose stairs he sits ⟨p. 274⟩waiting, what enormities he soothes, what deformities he imitates, what base offices he does prostrate himself to, so he may rise. His carriage is alienum a se, quite another thing from himself: he doth glue it on indecently, that he may screw himself into favour. This man never understood the charge that goes with honour; Which the most wise disposition of God hath coupled together. Charge without some honour would overlay a man. If a man could have honour without some trouble, it would so transport him, that he were continually in danger of running mad. The poor man envies the great for his honour: the great perhaps envies the poor more for his peace: for as he lives obscurely, so securely. He that rightly knows the many public, and more secret vexations incident to Honour, would not (as that King said of his Crown) stoop to take it up, though it lay at his feet before him.
Hee that would mount, cares not what attendance he daunces at all houres, vpon whose staires hee sittes ⟨p. 274⟩waiting, what enormities he soothes, what deformities he imitates, what base offices he does prostrate himselfe to, so he may rise. His carriage is alienum a se, quite another thing from himselfe: he doth glew it on indecently, that he may skrew himselfe into fauour. This man neuer vnderstood the charge that goes with honour; Which the most wise disposition of God hath coupled together. Charge without some honour would ouerlay a man. If a man could haue honour without some trouble, it would so transport him, that he were continually in danger of running madde. The poore man enuies the great for his honour: the great perhaps enuies the poore more for his peace: for as he liues obscurely, so securely. He that rightly knowes the many publicke, and more secret vexatitions incident to Honour, would not (as that King sayd of his Crowne) stoope to take it vp, though it lay at his feete before him.