A01956:1930
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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1. By touching: he that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled. It is dangerous to sport and dally with them: dumb ludunt, laedunt. mHe casteth firebrands, and arrows, and death; and saith, Am I not in sport. As Solomon saith, Their very mercies are cruel: so their very jest is killing earnest.
1. By touching: he that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled. It is dangerous to sport and dally with them: dum ludunt, laedunt. mHe casteth firebrands, and arrowes, and death; and sayth, Am I not in sport. As Solomon sayth, Their very mercies are cruell: so their very iest is killing earnest.
2. By companying with them: they hurt by sporting, but worse by sorting. nCast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse. They that will quarter themselves with the wicked, must drink of their poison. If you ask, how happens it that their infection is not smelt: Bernard answers; Ubi omnes s•rdent, unius ⟨p. 319⟩2minimè sentitur: one is not smelt, where all stink.
2. By companying with them: they hurt by sporting, but worse by sorting. n