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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.
4. A man cannot sLive by bread only, much worse by Leaven. No man can live for ever by his righteousness and good works, much less by his sins. Sin is no nourishment to the soul: unless as some Mithridates-like have so inured their bodies to poison, that Venenum nutrit; even venom doth batten them: so others their souls to sin, that they cannot keep life without it. And indeed we say of some things, that they nourish sickness, and feed death. Omne simile nutrit simile: inward corruption is fed & maintained by outward action. Covetise in Judas is nourished by filching his masters money. Murder in Joab is heartened and hardened with blood. Theft is fatted with booties: pride with gay rags: usury battens by extortion: Sacrilege by Church-robbing. tPascitur Libido conuivijs, nutritur delicijs, vino accenditur, ebrietate flammatur. Banqueting is the diet of lust, Wantonness her Nurse, Wine kindles a heat in her blood, and Drunkenness is the powder that sets her on fire. Thus sin feeds upon ⟨p. 374⟩this leaven: but with the same success that Israel upon quails: they fatted their carcasses, but made them lean souls.
4. A man cannot sLiue by bread only, much worse by Leuen. No man can liue for euer by his righteousnesse and good works, much lesse by his sinnes. Sinne is no nourishment to the soule: vnles as some Mithridates-like haue so inured their bodies to poison, that Venenum nutrit; euen venime doth batten them: so others their soules to sinne, that they cannot keepe life without it. And indeed we say of some things, that they nourish sicknesse, and feed death. Omne simile nutrit simile: inward corruption is fed & maintained by outward action. Couetice in Iudas is nourished by filching his masters money. Murder in Ioab is hartned and hardned with bloud. Theft is fatted with booties: pride with gay rags: vsury battens by extortion: Sacriledge by Church-robbing. tPascitur Libido conuiuijs, nutritur delicijs, vino accenditur, ebrietate flammatur. Banketting is the diet of lust, Wantonnesse her Nurse, Wine kindles a heate in her bloud, and Drunkennesse is the powder that sets her on fire. Thus sinne feeds vpon