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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.
kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish. At that day Plus valebunt pura corda, quàm as•ta 1verba: conscientia bona, quàm marsupia plena. Pure hearts shall speed better then subtle words: a good conscience better then a full purse. Judex non falletur verbis, nec flectetur donis. That Judge will neither be moved with our gifts, nor deceived with our shifts. Happy soul, that forsaking the love of money, hath gotten a pure heart to ⟨p. 106⟩appear before Jesus Christ.
kisse the Sonne lest he be angry, and ye perish. At that day Plus valebunt pura corda, quàm as•ta 1verba: conscientia bona, quàm marsupia plena. Pure hearts shall speed better then subtile words: a good conscience better then a full purse. Iudex non falletur verbis, nec flectetur donis. That Iudge will neither be mooued with our gifts, nor deceiued with our shifts. Happy soule, that forsaking the loue of money, hath gotten a pure heart to ⟨p. 106⟩appeare before Iesus Christ.
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4. Impartialitas Justitiae, impartial Justice. Tully tells us of a Proverb. Exuit personam Judicis, quisquis amici induit: He hath put off the person of a Judge, that puts on the person of a friend. The good Judge neither hath his right hand filled with love, nor his left with hatred: the school of Justice is not swayed. Indeed tamdiu Judex, quamdiu Justus: he is so long a Judge, as he is just. Nomen quod ab •quitate sumitur, per praevaricationem admittitur. Zeleucus was commended, that when (according to his Law for adultery, which took from the offender both his eyes) his son was deprehended in that fact; put out one of his own eyes, and one of his sons. Duo lumina cacantur juxta legem, duo supersunt juxta misericordiam. Two eyes are lost according to justice, and two remain according to mercy. A marvellous temper Inter justum Judicem, & misericordiem Patrem: between a just Judge, and a kind Father. But GOD is so just, that because sin would let him save none of us, he slew his Son to save all of us.