A01956:1946
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. The Cockatrice, that is said to kill with the eyes. Illius auditos expectant nulla susurros. The reason why 1it kills by sight, is thus given; because the beams of a Cockatrices eye corrupt the visible spirits of a man; which corrupted, corrupt the other spirits coming from the brain, and life of the heart. Our common Phrase hath found out creatures to match this kind of Serpents; Whores, usually called Cockatrices. I would to God they were believed as dangerous as they are, and are named.
5. The Cocatrice, that is sayd to kill with the eyes. Illius auditos expectant nulla susurros. The reason why 1it killes by sight, is thus giuen; because the beames of a Cocatrices eye corrupt the visible spirits of a man; which corrupted, corrupt the other spirits comming from the braine, and life of the heart. Our common Phrase hath found out creatures to match this kind of Serpents; Whores, vsually call'd Cocatrices. I would to God they were beleeued as dangerous as they are, and are named.
- 1Nicand.
The Cockatrice is a very hot creature; and therefore made with spiraments and breathing places all over the body: least the compage and juncture of the whole composition should be dissolved. The intemperate heat of harlots is worse, and in some kind a very reflection from the fire of hell. There is an old tale, that England was once so pestered with Cockatrices, that a certain man found out one only trick to destroy them: which was by walking up and down in glass before them; whereby their own shapes were so reflected upon their own faces, that they died. ⟨p. 323⟩But it is idle, for it is more likely that the man should dye by the corruption of the air from the cockatrice, then the cockatrice by the resultance of it own similitude from the glass. As the harlot will sooner pervert a man, then he shall convert the harlot. Indeed they say, if they first see us, they kill us: if we first see them, they die. So if we first see the damnation of a Courtesan, we save our selves: if they first see & wound us, we dye of it.