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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. We have the Dar•; and that's the Angry man. This is the Serpent that is thought to leap on Pauls hand. Jaculum vocat Africa. It gathers it self into a heap on the top of a tree, and so flies at a man, tanquam 1Sagitta; as a Dart. Such a Serpent is the hasty furious man; he flies upon another with a sudden blow. Some conjecture (I know not how probably) that these were the fiery Serpents in the Desert.
2. We haue the Dar•; and that's the Angrie man. This is the Serpent that is thought to leape on Pauls hand. Iaculum vocat Affrica. It gathers it selfe into a heape on the toppe of a tree, and so flies at a man, tanquam 1Sagitta; as a Dart. Such a Serpent is the hasty furious man; he flies vpon another with a sudden blow. Some coniecture (I know not how probably) that these were the fiery Serpents in the Desart.
- 1Act. 28.
3. There is the Dipsas, the Drunkard. This Serpent lives altogether in moorish places: the serpent in the fens, the man at the alehouse. Ovid writes of an old drunken woman. Est quaedam nomine Dipsas anus. Ex re nomen habet. Her name did agree with her nature. It is ever dry saith Lucan. Medijs siti•bant Dipsades undis. If this Serpent wound a man, it turns all his blood into poison. So the Drunkard turns his blood to water, his bread to drink, his reason to poison, ⟨p. 322⟩his very soul to froth.