A01956:1950
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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7. We have also the Aspe• that's the traitors Seminary. Lucan writes, that the original of Asps was Africa, and that merchants translated them into Europe. Sed quis erit nobis Lucripudor! Inde petuntur Huc Lybicae m•tes, & fec•mus Aspida merces. But what is our gain, saith he? We have made the Aspos a merchandise. So these our Asps are bred in Italy, and shipped over into England as a precious merchandise. They speak themselves so gentle, that aa sucking child may play […] the hol• of these Asps: but we have found their boroughs the holes of treason, and their vaults the vaults of gunpowder. There is feud betwixt the Ichneumon and the Asp: they oft fight: if the Asp bite first, the Ichneumon dyes: if the Ichneumon first, the Asp dyes. Let us strike them with punishment, lest they strike us with death. These Asps kill many souls in our Land. Aspidis & mersu Loesum dormire fatentur In mortem, antidotum nec valuisse ferunt. If the be witched people once receive their poison, they sleep to death: and no help prevails, for they will not come to Church to be cured.
7. We haue also the Aspe• that's the traitours Seminary. Lucan writes, that the originall of Aspes was Affrica, and that merchants translated them into Europe. Sed quis erit nobis Lucripudor! Inde petuntur Huc Lybicae m•tes, & fec•mus Aspida merces. But what is our gaine, sayth hee? We haue made the Aspos a merchandice. So these our Aspes are bred in Italie, and ship'd ouer into England as a precious merchandice. They speake themselues so gentle, that aa sucking child may play 〈…〉 the hol• of these Aspes: but wee haue found their boroughs the holes of treason, and their vaults the vaults of gunpowder. There is feud betwixt the Ichneumon and the Aspe: they oft fight: if the Aspe bite first, the Ichneumon dyes: if the Ichneumon first, the Aspe dyes. Let vs strike them with punishment, lest they strike vs with death. These Aspes kill many soules in our Land. Aspidis & mersu Loesum dormire fatentur In mortem, antidotum nec valuisse ferunt. If the be witched people once receiue their poyson, they sleepe to death: and no helpe preuailes, for they will not come to Church to be cured.