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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 COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOURITE. › SumTHE COSMOPOLITE: OR, WORLDS FAVOVRITE. › Summe
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1. Not from the soul: all evil to this, is either Poenae, or Culpae; of sin, or of punishment for sin.
1. Not from the soule: all euill to this, is eyther Poenae, or Culpae; of sinne, or of punishment for sinne.
For Sin, what vice is evacuated by riches? Is the wealthy man humbled by his abundance? no, he is rather swelled into a frothy pride; conceiting himself more then he is, or at least imagining, that he is either ([Greek or Hebrew]) or ([Greek or Hebrew],) the man or some body. And as pride is radix omnis ⟨p. 345⟩peccati; the root of all sin; so riches is the root of pride, Divitiarum vermis superbia, saith S. Augustine. When the sum of prosperity heats the dunghill of riches, there is engendered the snake of pride. Wealth is but a quill, to blow up the bladder of high-mindedness. Saint Paul knew this inseparable consequence, when he charged Timothy, to Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded. And do we think that the heat 1of malice will be slaked by riches? no, it is fired rather into combustion; and now bursts forth into a flame, what before was forced to lye suppressed in the embers of t•e heart. Is any man the more continent for his abundance? No. Stat quaevis multo meretrix mercabilis auro: whores are led to hell with golden threads. Riches is a warm nest, where lust securely sits to hatch all her unclean brood. From fullness of bread, the Sodomites fall to unnatural wantonness. Ceres et Liber pinguescunt Venerem. Oppression is not abated by multiplication of riches; but rather Longiorem & magis strenuam reddit manum; gives it a longer and stronger arm. For as the poor cannot withstand, so the rich will not restrain the tyranny of great oppressors. They covet fields, and take them by violence: 2how? Because their hand hath power.