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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 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.
And let the Cormorant, that rides ever on the back of Engrossing, whose soul is like Erisicthons bowels in the Poet, Quodque urbibus esse, Quodque satis poterat populo, non sufficit uni. that starves men to feed vermin; know, that there is a Pursuivant flies after him; that shall give him an eternal arrest, and make him leave both Horreum and hordeum, his barn and his barley; to go to a place, where is no food but fire and anguish.
And let the Cormorant, that rides euer on the back of Engrossing, whose soule is like Erisicthons bowels in the Poet, Quodque vrbibus esse, Quodque satis poterat populo, non sufficit vni. that starues men to feed vermine; know, that there is a Pursuiuant flies after him; that shall giue him an eternall arrest, and make him leaue both Horreum and hordeum, his barne and his barley; to goe to a place, where is no food but fire and anguish.