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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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If wealth be wit, what means Christ here to call the Rich man Fool? yes, good reason. xGod hath made foolish the wisdom of this world. If God calls him so, he gets little to have the world esteem him otherwise. yNot he that commendeth himself, nor whom the world commendeth, is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. An ounce of credit with God, is worth a talent of mens praises. Frustra commendatur in terris, qui condemnatur in coelis. The world commends, but God condemns; which of these judgements shall stand?
If wealth be witte, what meanes Christ here to call the Rich man Foole? yes, good reason. xGod hath made foolish the wisedome of this world. If God calls him so, he gets little to haue the world esteeme him otherwise. yNot hee that commendeth himselfe, nor whom the world commendeth, is approued, but whom the Lord commendeth. An ounce of credit with God, is worth a talent of mens praises. Frustra commendatur in terris, qui condemnatur in coelis. The world commends, but God condemnes; which of these iudgements shall stand?
I might here infer doctrinally, that all Covetous men be fools: and that in his censure, that cannot deceive, not be deceived. but I should prevent the issue of this Text, to say and show this now. I therefore content my self to say it now, to show it anon. It may be cavilled, that Folly is rather a defect in the understanding, Covetousness in the