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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.
The Diseases.
1. The Cataract, which is a thickness drawn over the eye, and bred of many causes: this especially, either from the rheum of vain-glory, or the inflammation of malice. From this eye there is no reflection, or returning the own beams, whereby a man may contemplate himself. But even the optic nerves, and the visory spirits are corrupted: the memory cannot revolve, nor the mind present it self, what it is; nec in se descendere tentat. This dark mind is the vault, where Satan keeps his Seminary, and sits hatching a black brood of lusts.
1. The Cataract, which is a thicknesse drawne ouer the eye, and bred of many causes: this especially, either from the rheume of vaine-glory, or the inflammation of malice. From this eye there is no reflection, or returning the owne beames, whereby a man may contemplate himselfe. But euen the optick nerues, and the visory spirits are corrupted: the memorie cannot reuolue, nor the mind present it selfe, what it is; nec in se descendere tentat. This darke mind is the vault, where Satan keepes his Seminarie, and sits hatching a blacke brood of lusts.
The means to expel this disease, is to take Gods Law into thy hand and heart, and through that glass to look into thy self. m