A01956:1916
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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5. Lastly this poison having got possession of the thoughts, words, works; it must needs follow that it hath taken the Heart. aCor dolet, the whole heart is sick. These corrupted symptoms prove that the heart is rotten bThe very meat in their bowels is turned to the gall of Asps. They suck the poison of Asps. If you ask why they feel it not; Paul says; Their sense is lost: cThey are past feeling. Their whole self is changed into a disease. Their body is no longer Corpus, but Morbus. As Lucan. Totum est pro vulnere corpus. Their whole body is as one wound or sickness. Neither can we say so properly of them, that they are sick, as that they are dead. Nonaegroti, sed defuncti: not diseased, but deceased.
5. Lastly this poyson hauing got possession of the thoughts, words, workes; it must needs follow that it hath taken the Heart. aCor dolet, the whole heart is sicke. These corrupted simptomes proue that the heart is rotten bThe very meate in their bowells is turned to the gall of Aspes. They sucke the poyson of Aspes. If you aske why they feele it not; Paul sayes; Their sense is lost: cThey are past feeling. Their whole selfe is changed into a disease. Their bodie is no longer Corpus, but Morbus. As Lucan. Totum est pro vulnere corpus. Their whole body is as one wound or sicknes. Neither can wee say so properly of them, that they are sicke, as that they are dead. Nonaegroti, sed defuncti: not diseased, but deceased.
- aEsa. 1. 5.
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