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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.
2. It is offensive to his Tasting: dI looked (after all my pains and kindness) for good grapes, and the Vine brought forth wild grapes. When he comes to taste the vintage of our sins, they are sour grapes. eYe turn judgment into wormwood: Justice is pleasant unto the Lord, but injury bitter as wormwood. So the Jews served Christ, in stead of wine they gave him vinegar to drink. He turned their water into wine, they turn his wine into vinegar. Good works of faith and obedience are that fbest wine, which we should give our Beloved: that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep, to speak. But evil deeds are sour to his palate.
2. It is offensiue to his Tasting: dI looked (after all my paines and kindnesse) for good grapes, and the Vine brought forth wilde grapes. When hee comes to taste the vintage of our sinnes, they are sowre grapes. eYee turne iudgment into wormwood: Iustice is pleasant vnto the Lord, but iniurie bitter as wormewood. So the Iewes serued Christ, in stead of wine they gaue him vineger to drink. He turned their water into wine, they turne his wine into vineger. Good workes of faith and obedience are that fbest wine, which we should giue our Beloued: that goeth downe sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep, to speak. But euill deeds are sowre to his palate.