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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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In effect; a little sin makes the whole man in body and soul, unsavoury to the Lord. For method in proceeding; first, we will view the Metaphor, the Similitude of sin to leaven: then examine how a little of this can sour the whole lump. The similitude holds in many respects, albeit one be here principally intended, the souring quality; yet may the rest be justly considered.
In effect; a little sinne makes the whole man in bodie and soule, vnsauory to the Lord. For methode in proceeding; first, we will view the Metaphor, the Similitude of sin to leuen: then examine how a little of this can sowre the whole lumpe. The similitude holds in many respects, albeit one be here principally intended, the sowring quality; yet may the rest be iustly considered.
1. Leaven is not bread, but the corruption of that which maketh bread. Sin is not a created quality, but the corruption of a created quality. God made not sin: Who then? the devil begot it on mans lust: iThis I have found, that God made man upright: but they have sought out many inventions: Tricks enow to make themselves miserable. That which rottenness is in the Apple, sourness in the Wine, corruption in the flesh, such is sin in the Soul: Fetida qu•dam qualitas, a thing never good since it took being, only usurps the place of good, and occupies the seat where a happy and perfect quality stood. It is like a Jehoiakim that sits in the Throne of a Josiah: as that bad son of so good a father kgave the silver and the gold of the Temple to Pharaoh Necho: so this, gives the endowments of nature, of reason, of affection, to the black Prince of darkness. Or as the Pope pretends, that he sits in the chair of Peter▪ yet what that blessed Saint attributed to Christ; l