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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.
Concute: tecum habita: te consule, dic tibi quis sis.
Plumb-deep into thy own breast: nAnimi tui abyssum intra. A man offends less, by searching sin with too deep, then with too short an instrument. Though this ⟨p. 292⟩be, saith oAnselm, gravis angustia; a hard exigent. Si me inspicio, •ipsum non tolero; si non inspicio, nescio. Si video, horror; si non videro, mors est. If I look into my self, I cannot endure my self; if I look not, I cannot know my self. If I see my self, there is horror: if I see not, there is death. This inspection is difficult. Difficile est se nosse, sed beatum. It is a hard, but a happy thing to know ones self. Private sins are not easily spied out. Difficilius est inuenire, quàm interficere; as Caesar said of the Scythians. It is harder to find them out, then to root them out. Innumerable sins are in a man; if not in actual and ripe practice, yet in growing seeds. Qui indulget uno vitio, amicus est omnibus. Hee that is partially indulgent to one sin, is a friend to all. It is a pains well taken, to study thy self. How sweet a rest doth that night bring, whose sleep is prevented with a recognition of our selves!
Plumbe-deepe into thy owne brest: nAnimi tui abyssum intra. A man offends lesse, by searching sinne with too deepe, then with too short an instrument. Though this ⟨p. 292⟩be, saith oAbselme, grauis angustia; a hard exigent. Si me inspicio, •ipsum non tolero; si non inspicio, nescio. Si video, horror; si non videro, mors est. If I looke into my selfe, I cannot indure my selfe; if I looke not, I cannot knovv my selfe. If I see my selfe, there is horror: if I see not, there is death. This inspection is difficult. Difficile est se nosse, sed beatum. It is a hard, but a happy thing to know ones selfe. Priuate sinnes are not easily spied out. Difficilius est inuenire, quàm interficere; as Casar said of the Scythians. It is harder to finde them out, then to roote them out. Innumerable sinnes are in a man; if not in actuall and ripe practice, yet in growing seeds. Qui indulget vno vitio, amicus est omnibus. Hee that is partially indulgent to one sinne, is a friend to all. It is a paines well taken, to study thy selfe. How sweet a rest doth that night bring, whose sleepe is preuented with a recognition of our selues!