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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.
1. For them; let all these tyrannous Riders know, that there is one rides after them; a great one, a just one; even he that rides on the wings of the wind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He that hath a bridle for these Senacheribs, and strikes a snaffle through their jaws; and turns their violence with more ease, then the wind doth a fane on the house-top. Then a horse shall be but a vain thing to save a man, saith the Psalmist. Horse and Master shall fall together.
1. For them; let all these tyrannous Riders know, that there is one rides after them; a great one, a iust one; euen he that rides on the vvings of the wind, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete. He that hath a bridle for these Senacheribs, and strikes a s•affle through their iawes; and turnes their violence with more ease, then the wind doth a fane on the house-top. Then a horse shall be but a vaine thing to saue a man, saith the Psalmist. Horse and Master shall fall together.
Then the covetous Nimrod, that rode on the black beast Oppression, shall be thundered down from his proud height; and the Jade that carried him shall dash out his brains, and lye heavier then a thousand talents of lead on his conscience. His oppression shall damn himself, as before it did damnify others. It was to them a momentany vexation, it shall be to him an eternal pressure of torment.
Then the couetous Nimrod, that rode on the blacke beast Oppression, shal be thundred down from his proud height; and the Iade that carried him shall dash out his braines, and lye heauier then a thousand talents of lead on his conscience. His oppression shall damne himselfe, as before it did damnifie others. It was to them a momentany vexation, it shall be to him an eternall pressure of torment.