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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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They are mystical Serpents, I mean. And if wicked men think scorn to be called Serpents, let them abhor the qualities of Serpents. xSin is of that power, that it can work metamorphoses, and transform men into beasts and serpents. Let us now see what Serpents we have among us.
They are mysticall Serpents, I meane. And if wicked men thinke scorne to be called Serpents, let them abhorre the qualities of Serpents. xSinne is of that power, that it can worke metamorphoses, and transforme men into beasts and serpents. Let vs now see what Serpents we haue among vs.
- xI refer you for this doctrine to my Sermon upon Math. 10. 16.I referre you for this doctrine to my Sermon vpon Math. 10. 16.
1. We have the Salamander, the troublesome and litigious neighbour; who ever loves and lives in the fire of contention. Whatsoever they talk that the Salamander is nourished by the fire; yet Galen and Dioscorides affirm, that if it tarry long in it, it will be burnt, when the humidity is wasted. Whatsoever a ⟨p. 321⟩man gets by the fire of vexation, at last his humour will be wasted, his wealth spent, and himself consumed in his own flames. Let no man think to get by his troublesomeness, as if he could be fed with fire. They talk of a Net at Rome (wherein Christs napkin is preserved) that it is washed in nothing but fire. And Paulus Venetus speaks of a kind of earth in Tartaria; which being spun into a thread, and woven into cloth, is only purged from all spots by washing it in the fire. But if ever any man grow rich by his contentiousness, I will believe that fire is nourishment.