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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.
The malicious slanderer is a perilous Rider; and he rides like death upon a fpale horse, Envy. Thus were the Pharisees mounted, when they rode over Christ, even the Head of our heads. If Jesus will not be a Pharisee, they will nail him to the Cross. These venomous Cantharides light upon Gods fairest flowers: and strive, either to blast them with their contumelious breaths, or to tread them under their malicious feet.
The malicious slanderer is a perillous Rider; and hee rides like death vpon a fpale horse, Enuie. Thus were the Pharises mounted, when they rode ouer Christ, euen the Head of our heads. If Iesus will not be a Pharise, they will naile him to the Crosse. These venemous Cantharides light vpon Gods fairest flowers: and striue, either to blast them with their contumelious breaths, or to tread them vnder their malicious feete.
The griping Usurer is a pestilent Rider; and he is mounted on a heavy Jade, Mammon or love of money. Every step of this beast wounds to the heart, and quasheth out the life-blood. O that this sordid beast of usury, with all his ponderous and unwieldy trappings; bills, obligations, pawns, mortgages, were thrown into a fire temporal; that the riders converted soul might be saved from the fire eternal. If any Alcibiades had authority and will, to kindle such a fire in England as was once at Athens, I believe that no tears would be shed to quench it: but the music of our peace would sound merrily to it: and the rather, because there would be no more groans to mollify it.