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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
MANS SEED-TIME AND HARVEST: OR, Lex Talionis. › God is not mocked.
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.
If there be any luxurious, that serves God in the Temple, his flesh in the Chamber. Any covetous, that (as if his soul was divisible) strives to serve two masters; though he doth it diversly: God with his art, the world with his heart. If any blasphemer that here sings Psalms, and abroad howls oaths and curses. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth 1his own heart, this mans religion is in vain. If any seem [Greek or Hebrew], when they are [Greek or Hebrew], servers of the Lord, when they are observers of the time. Let them know to their horror, Non deluditur Deus, God is not mocked.
If there be any luxurious, that serues God in the Temple, his flesh in the Chamber. Any couetous, that (as if his soule was diuisible) striues to serue two masters; though he doth it diuersly: God with his arte, the world with his heart. If any blasphemer that here sings Psalmes, and abroad howles oathes and curses. If any man among you seeme to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiueth 1his owne heart, this mans religion is in vaine. If any seem 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, whē they are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, seruers of the Lord, vvhen they are obseruers of the time. Let them know to their horror, Non deluditur Deus, God is not mocked.
Gold cannot hide a rotten post from GODS eye. If men will be Humiles sine despectu, and Pauperes fine defectu; 1