A01956:1931
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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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. nCast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse. They that will quarter themselues with the wicked, must drinke of their poyson. If you aske, how happes it that their infection is not sm•lt: Bernard answers; Vbi omnes s•rdent, vnius ⟨p. 319⟩2minimè sentitur: one is not smelt, where all stinke.
- nProu. 1. 14.
- 2De Consider.
3. By Confederacy; which is yet a higher degree of receiving their poison. The first was alight dallying with their humours, the next a society with them in some drunken riots and disorders: but this third is a conspiracy with them in their pernicious and deadly plots. Thus a Seminary comes from Rome, and whistles together a number of traitors: he brought poison with him in a Bulls horn, and they all must drink it. As they report, that once one scabbed sheep from Spain rotted all the sheep of England.