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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. › In Proportion,
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Thus Absaloms folly was the recompense of Davids adultery. He had slain Uriah with the sword, and the sword shall not depart from his house. Solomon divides Gods Kingdom, his own Kingdom shall be divided. Because Pharaoh drowned the male children of the Hebrews 1in •iver, himself and his Egyptian Host shall be drowned in a Red Sea. Dives would not give Lazarus a crumb: Lazarus shall not bring Dives a drop. Desider […], qui non dedit micam. There is fit Proportion, betwixt a crumb of bread and a drop of water. 2The tongue of that Rich man, that had consumed so much belly-cheer, and turned down so many tuns of wine; shall not now procure one pot of water, not a handful, not a drop. In his tongue he sinned, in his tongue he is torm•d. Judas was the instrument of his Masters death, Judas shall be the instrument of his own death. Insolent […] vowed to imprison conquered Tamburlaine, in a cage of iron, and to carry him up and down the world in triumph. But Tamburlaine conquering that Turk, triumphed over him just in the same fashion. Those two monsters of the age Pope Alexander 6. and his darling Borgias, that had bathed their hands in so much blood; were at last by the error of a cup-bearer, poisoned themselves out of those very bottles wherewith they would have poisoned the Cardinals. ⟨p. 247⟩Behold the Proportion; punishments respondent to the sins.
Thus Absolons folly was the recompence of Dauids adultery. He had slaine Vriah with the sword, and the sword shall not depart from his house. Salomon deuides Gods Kingdome, his owne Kingdome shall be deuided. Because Pharaoh drowned the male children of the Hebrewes 1in •iuer, himselfe and his Aegyptian Host shall be drowned in a Red Sea. Diues would not giue Lazarus a crumme: Lazarus shall not bring Diues a droppe. Desider 〈…〉, qui non dedit micam. There is fit Proportion, betwixt a crumme of bread and a droppe of water.