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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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Vanishing thoughts, that pass through a good man without approbation, not without suppression, are properly Nec mors nec morbus animae, sed deformitas; neither the disease nor death of the soul, but the deformity. They are im•issae; Satan's darts shot through us: in corde, non de corde: in the heart, not of the heart. Which the godly Sentiunt, non consentiunt; feele, but give no liking to. They are our Crosses, not our sins. Such a thought is but morbus mentis, the disease of the mind; ⟨p. 311⟩the other morsus serpentis; the wound or poison of the Serpent. The allowed filthy cogitation is the poison. Thus are the thoughts poisoned.
Vanishing thoughts, that passe through a good man without approbation, not without suppression, are properly Nec mors nec morbus animae, sed deformitas; neither the disease nor death of the soule, but the deformitie. They are im•issae; Satans darts shot through vs: in corde, non de corde: in the heart, not of the heart. Which the godly Sentiunt, non consentiunt; feele, but giue no liking to. They are our Crosses, not our sinnes. Such a thought is but morbus mentis, the disease of the mind; ⟨p. 311⟩the other morsus serpentis; the wound or poyson of the Serpent. The allowed filthy cogitation is the poyson. Thus are the thoughts poysond.
2. From thence it runs to the Senses, and sets open those windows to let in the poisonous air of wickedness. The five Senses are the Cinque Ports, where all the great traffic of the Devil is taken in. They are the Pores, whereby Satan conveys in the stinking breath of temptation.
2. From thence it runs to the Senses, and sets open those windows to let in the poisonous aire of wickednesse. The fiue Senses are the Cinque Ports, where all the great traffique of the Deuill is taken in. They are the Pores, whereby Sathan conveyes in the stinking breath of temptation.