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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.
The Pharisees made difference of oaths. qWhosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoever shall swear by the Gold of the Temple, he is a debtor. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold? That was their doctrine, this was Christs reproof. So the Papists have their distinctions betwixt a material and a formal oath: one to bind the conscience, the other not. Out of such an unlucky copulation of fraud and malice, was that monstrous stigmatic Equivocation engendered. A damned egg, not covered by any fair bird, but hatched as the Poets feign of O sprays, with a thunderclap. A mere bastard, whosoever was the Father, Jesuits keep the child, and bring it up as their only darling. But they have their Bulls of dispensation for it: fit, they should all speed, as some did once with their bulls. Two Seminaries came into England with their two Bulls, but being apprehended, those two Bulls called in a third Bull, which was Bull the hangman, to dispatch them both.
The Pharises made difference of oathes. qWhosoeuer shall sweare by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer shall sweare by the Gold of the Temple, hee is a debter. Ye fooles and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold? That was their doctrine, this was Christs reproofe. So the Papists haue their distinctions betwixt a materiall and a formall oath: one to bind the conscience, the other not. Out of such an vnlucky copulation of fraud and malice, was that monstrous stigmatike Equiuocation engendred. A damned egge, not couered by any faire bird, but hatch'd as the Poets faine of O sprayes, with a thunderclap. A meere bastard, whosoeuer was the Father, Iesuites keepe the child, and bring it vp as their onely darling. But they haue their Bulls of dispensation for it: fit, they should all speed, as some did once with their buls. Two Seminaries came into England with their two Bulls, but being apprehended, those two Bulls call'd in a third Bull, which was Bull the hangman, to dispatch them both.