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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.
Thus heresy creeps in at a little hole, but infects, infests the whole house: like a plague that comes in at the windows; and then propagates it self beyond all measure. bErroris non est finis: there is no termination of error. Therefore the only way to refute heresies, is to fetch them back to their originall. H•reses ad sua principia referre, est refell•re. If you can reduce them to their first, you see their last. As if a man would dry up a stream, he cannot do it in the main; but goes first to the Springhead, stops up that: the river will fail of it self.
Thus heresie creepes in at a little hole, but infects, infests the whole house: like a plague that comes in at the windowes; and then propagates it selfe beyond all measure. bErroris non est finis: there is no termination of errour. Therefore the onely way to refute heresies, is to fetch them backe to their originall. H•reses ad sua principia referre, est refell•re. If you can reduce them to their first, you see their last. As if a man would dry vp a streame, he cannot do it in the maine; but goes first to the Springhead, stops vp that: the riuer will faile of it selfe.
- bSeen.Sene.
As in the bodily Gangrene the part affected grows tumid and cadaverous, the colour fades and becomes blackish: So in the spiritual, the mind grows tumid & swelling: cVainly puffed up with a fleshly mind: the fair colour of profession gone: