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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
THE HAPPINESS OF THE CHURCH. › Of God.THE HAPPINES OF THE CHVRCH. › Of God.
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.
1. Quando ausertur sacrum de sacro: when a holy thing ⟨p. 25⟩is taken from a holy place: as the consecrated vessels out of the Temple. Felix seeing the costly Chalices Constantinus and Constantius had bestowed on the Church, maliciously scoffed, What stately plate is there for the Carpenters 1Son? But he that had so base a conceit of Christs blood, did himself nothing night and day but vomit blood, till his unhappy soul was fetched from his wretched carcass. We have too many of those, that like Belshazzar, with the riches of the Church have furnished their cup-boards of Plate.
1. Quando ausertur sacrum de sacro: when a holy thing ⟨p. 25⟩is taken from a holy place: as the consecrated vessels out of the Temple. Foelix seeing the costly Chalices Constantinus and Constantius had bestowed on the Church, maliciously scoffed, What stately plate is there for the Carpenters 1Son? But he that had so base a conceit of Christs bloud, did himselfe nothing night and day but vomit bloud, till his vnhappy soule was fetched from his wretched carkase. Wee haue too many of those, that like Belshazzar, with the riches of the Church haue furnished their cup-bords of Plate.
- 1Theodoret.
2. Quando non sacrum de sacro, when a common thing is stolen from a sacred place. As if a thief breaks open a Church to steal some private treasure hid in it. So the Church-wardens may defraud the poor of the money in the box. It is the poor's, not sacred to the Church, yet is it sacrilege to embezzle it.