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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
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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.
Then the blood-drawing Usurer, that rode so furiously ⟨p. 176⟩on his Jade Extortion, shall (if timely deprecation and restitution stay him not) run full butt against the gates of hell, and break his neck. And he that at the bars of temporal Judgements, cried out for nothing but Justice, Justice, and had it: shall now cry louder for mercy, mercy, and go without it.
Then the bloud-drawing Vsurer, that rode so furiously ⟨p. 176⟩on his Iade Extortion, shall (if timely deprecation and restitution stay him not) runne full butt against the gates of hell, and breake his necke. And hee that at the barres of temporall Iudgements, cryed out for nothing but Iustice, Iustice, and had it: shall now cry lowder for mercy, mercy, and goe without it.