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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. Sour to the Angels: for if they srejoice at our conversion, then they grieve at our perversion. How sour is that sin, which brings grief unto the thresholds of joy! They blush at our falls, rejoice at our integrity. tAre they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for them who ⟨p. 377⟩shall be the heirs of salvation? Let us then feast them with integrity, not with the leaven of iniquity.
2. Sowre to the Angels: for if they sreioyce at our conuersion, then they grieue at our peruersion. How sowre is that sinne, which brings griefe vnto the thresholds of ioy! They blush at our falls, reioyce at our integrity. tAre they not all ministring spirits, sent forth for them who ⟨p. 377⟩shall be the heyres of saluation? Let vs then feast them with integrity, not with the leauen of iniquity.
3. Sour to the Saints: the Church is our Mother, and she laments to see any child of her womb averse from goodness. Therefore as a loving Mother, whose husband was slain for the safety of her self & children; if she sees any child transgress the rules, and break her husbands Testament; she tells them of their Fathers kindness: she describes his deadly wounds and ghastly looks: and to make their facts more odious, she showeth some garment of his embrued with blood. So the Church often offers to our considerations, how Christ her dear Love and Lord was betrayed, condemned, crucified: tells us, our sins have done this; that they were the Judas betraying, the Herod mocking, the Pilate condemning, the Longinus wounding, the band of Jews re-crucifying Christ. Now as Ddo adjured departing Aeneas; Per ego te has lacrymas, &c. Per si quid unquam Dulce fuit nobis, horum miserere laborum. So our Mother entreats us, (yet entreating is too low a phrase for a Mother) per talem cruorem, per tantum amorem; by so precious blood, and by so gracious love, to sin no more; at least to abhor such precipices of sin; and forbear (as it were) to choke him with such cursed Leavens.