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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. Live worthy of that Honour thou hast. Greatness not gooded with grace is like a Beacon upon a high hill: Qui conspiciunt, despiciunt: they that behold it, hate it, though perhaps they dare not censure it. The knee may be forced to reverence, but but the mind cannot but abhor so unworthy a Statue. In his pride he stomachs the covered head, or the stiff knee of a good Mordecai, fretting that other men do not think him so good as he thinks himself. But indeed he doth not think himself more honourable then others think bim base. All the poor honour that he hath, is only kept above ground with his body; both corrupt, fall, and rot together: and if it be conjured up at the funeral, to present it self, yet it fails not to go back with the Heralds.
2. Liue worthy of that Honour thou hast. Greatnesse not gooded with grace is like a Beacon vpon a high hill: Qui conspiciunt, despiciunt: they that behold it, hate it, though perhaps they dare not censure it. The knee may be forced to reuerence, but but the mind cannot but abhorre so vnworthy a Statue. In his pride he stomackes the couerd head, or the stiffe knee of a good Mordecai, fretting that other men do not thinke him so good as he thinkes himselfe. But indeed he doth not thinke himselfe more honourable then others thinke bim base. All the poore honour that hee hath, is onely kept aboue ground with his body; both corrupt, fall, and rotte together: and if it bee coniurd vp at the funerall, to present it selfe, yet it failes not to goe backe with the Heralds.
3. Forget not your original, ye whose brows the wreathes of honour have (above hopes) engirt. ⟨p. 275⟩If the Lord hath mraised you out of the dust: and lifted you up out of the dunghill: and set you among the Princes of the people; yet forget not your Fathers house, nor the place of your beginning. Miseranda oblivio originis non meminisse. He never truly understands what he is, that forgets what he hath been. Solomons observation is often true;