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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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The eye of sense doth not extend to intelligible things, and matters of discourse. Tell a brute beast of Philosophy, and the conclusions of nature, he understands you not. The belly of Sense hath no ears for such instructions. Let it be fed, nourished, have the appetite delighted: of further felicity it hath neither notion, nor ⟨p. 295⟩motion. Nec noscit, nec poscit.
The eye of sense doth not extend to intelligible things, and matters of discourse. Tell a bruit beast of Philosophy, and the conclusions of nature, he vnderstands you not. The belly of Sense hath no eares for such instructions. Let it be fed, nourished, haue the appetite delighted: of further felicitie it hath neyther notion, nor ⟨p. 295⟩motion. Nec noscit, nec poscit.
The eye of Reason sees further then that of Sense; and hath (more then common Sense) a rational and discursive apprehension of intelligible objects. For the bodies of creatures, the brutes see them as well as man, and perhaps some better: but in these bodies he perceives hidden virtues, obiectuall to the scope of understanding, which the beast cannot see. I confess that many a man is defective in the gradual ascents of reason. Tell a rustic or mechanic that the Sun is greater then the whole earth, or that a little star is larger then his car-wheel; and he derides thy boldness, and thinks thou wouldst be admired for telling ally. Though this by the eye of mature reason is discerned perfect truth.
The eye of Reason sees further then that of Sense; and hath (more then common Sense) a rationall and discursiue apprehension of intelligible obiects. For the bodies of creatures, the bruites see them as well as man, and perhaps some better: but in these bodies he perceiues hidden vertues, obiectuall to the scope of vnderstanding, which the beast cannot see. I confesse that many a man is defectiue in the graduall ascents of reason. Tell a rusticke or mechanicke that the Sun is greater then the whole earth, or that a little starre is larger then his car-wheele; and he derides thy boldnesse, and thinkes thou wouldst be admired for telling alye. Though this by the eye of mature reason is discerned perfect truth.