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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 destructive depopulator is another pestiferous ⟨p. 172⟩Rider. He is a light Horseman; he can leap hedges and ditches, and therefore makes them in the midst of plain fields. He loves to ride in his own ground; and for this purpose expelleth all neighbours. Though Solomon says, that the King is served by the field that is tilled: yea he, as if he were wiser then Solomon, promiseth to serve him better 1with grass. He posteth after the poor, and hunts them out of his Lordship. He rides from town to town, from village to village, from land to land, from house to house; à doloso fur to ad publicum latrocinium, and never rests till he hath rid to the Devil.
The destructiue depopulator is another pestiferous ⟨p. 172⟩Rider. He is a light Horseman; he can leape hedges and ditches, and therefore makes them in the midst of plaine fields. He loues to ride in his owne ground; and for this purpose expelleth all neighbors. Though Salomon sayes, that the King is serued by the field that is tilled: ye hee, as if he were wiser then Salomon, promiseth to serue him better 1with grasse. Hee posteth after the poore, and hunts them out of his Lordship. He rides from towne to town, from village to village, from land to land, from house to house; à doloso fur to ad publicum latrocinium, and neuer rests till he hath rid to the Deuill.
And there is a fourth Rider gallops after him amain, as if he had sworn not to be hindmost, the oppressing Landlord: and he rides upon a horse that hath no pace but racking; for that is the Masters delight, racking of rents: and he hath two Lackeys or Pages run by him, Fines, and Carriages. Thus ascended, & attended, twice a year at least, he rides over the heads and hearts of the poor Tenants: that they can no more grow in wealth, then corn can that is scattered in the high way: for they as that, are continually over-ridden by their merciless Landlords. Let these riders take heed, lest the curses of the poor stumble their horses, and break their necks.