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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 BAD LEAVEN: OR, THE CONTAGION OF SIN.THE BAD LEAVEN: OR, THE CONTAGION OF SINNE.
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. To begin with the Pharisees; to these I may well liken our Seminaries; one egg is not liker another. Even a Jesuit wrote in good earnest, Non malè comparari Pharisaeos Catholicis; Papists are fitly compared to the Pharisees. Whether he spake it ignorantly or unwittingly, or purposely; I am sure Caiaphas never spoke truer when he meant it not. Shall we take a little pains to confer them? The Pharisees had corrupted, yea in a manner annulled the Law of God by their Traditions: and for this hChrist complains against them. Now for the Papists, this was one of their Tridentine decrees; With the same reverence and devotion doc we receive and respect Traditions, that we do the books of the old and new Testaments. Shut thine eyes and hear both speak, and then for a wager which ⟨p. 357⟩is the Pharisee, which the Seminary? Indeed to some traditions we give locum, but locum suum; a place, but their own place. They must never dare to take the wall of the Scripture.
1. To begin with the Pharises; to these I may well liken our Seminaries; one egge is not liker another. Euen a Iesuite wrote in good earnest, Non malè comparari Pharisaeos Catholicis; Papists are fitly compared to the Pharises. Whether he spake it ignorantly or vnwittingly, or purposely; I am sure Caiphas neuer spoke truer when he meant it not. Shall we take a little paines to confer them? The Pharises had corrupted, yea in a manner annulled the Law of God by their Traditions: and for this hChrist complaines against them. Now for the Papists, this was one of their Tridentine decrees; With the same reuerence and deuotion doc we receiue and respect Traditions, that wee doe the bookes of the olde and new Testaments. Shut thine eyes and heare both speake, and then for a wager vvhich ⟨p. 357⟩is the Pharise, which the Seminary? Indeed to some traditions we giue locum, but locum suum; a place, but their owne place. They must neuer dare to take the wall of the Scripture.
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