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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.
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Again, the Pharisees corrupted the good Text with their lewd Glosses. The law was, that no Leper might come into the Temple; their traditional Gloss was, that if he were let down through the roof, this was no offence. As that drunkard, that having for sworn going to a certain Tavern, yet being carried thither every day on mens shoulders, thought he had not broken his oath. Their Sabbath days journey was a thousand Cubits; their Gloss understood this without the walls, and walking all day through the city no sin. The Papists are not behind them in their foul interpretations, not shaming to call that sacred Writ a nose of wax, formable to any construction. Paul subscribes his two Epistles to the Thessalonians thus; Missa fuit ex Athenis; a Papist cries out strait, Here's a plain text for the Masse. Psal. 8. Omnia subiecisti pedibus eius; Thou hast put all things under 1his feet: This is spoken of the beasts subjection to man: their Gloss construes it of mens subjection to the Pope. So Esa. 49. They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. Here 2saith their Gloss, is a plain proof for kissing the Popes feet. Our Saviour says; iExcept ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven: Hereupon Saint Francis commands one Massaeus to tumble round on the earth like a little child, that he might enter. If thy foot offend thee, saith Christ, out it off. Hereupon when the penitent confessed to S. Anthony that he had kicked his mother, he urged him with that Text: the man went and cut off his foot, but S. Anthony (honestly to make him amends) set it on again. Were these not goodly constructions? So the new elected Pope in his solemn Lateran Procession, must take copper money out of his ⟨p. 358⟩Chamberlains lap, and scatter it among the people, saying, kSilver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give unto you. And is not this a probable truth, a praise-able bounty? Seven years penance is enjoined to a deadly sin; because Miriam was separated seven days for her leprosy; and God saith to