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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.
Little sins are dangerous; because they are Mortalia, they are deadly. Plurima, they are numerous. Insensibilia, not easily felt. Materialia maximorū; they are the materials or seeds of gross sins. Maximas inficiunt virtutes, they leaven the best virtues. Facilius perdunt, they more cunningly destroy the soul.
Little sinnes are dangerous; because they are Mortalia, they are deadly. Plurima, they are numerous. Insensibilia, not easily felt. Materialia maximorū; they are the materials or seeds of grosse sins. Maximas inficiunt virtutes, they leuen the best vertues. Facilius perdunt, they more cunningly destroy the soule.
1. Minima mortalia; even the least offence is mortal in it own nature, culpable of transgression, and liable to malediction. hThe wages of sin is death. It was a strange gloss of Haymo upon that Text: Hoc non de omnibus peccatis intelligendum est, sed de criminalibus. This is not meant of all sins, but only of such as are criminal: such (saith he) as S. John speaks of; iThere is a sin unto death, I say not that thou shouldst pray for it. So S. Pauls indefinite speech of all sins, he restrains to S. Johns particular sense of one sin; that sin (which shall never be forgiven) against the Holy Ghost. For otherwise if St. John should intend it of all criminal sins, then it would ⟨p. 381⟩follow that we should not pray for heretics, adulterers, homicides; which were directly cross to the rule of charity. Certainly Paul in that general rule admitted of no exception; it is an Aphorism wherein no sober judgement can find distinction. The Apostle thought of no venial, when he called all mortal. The wages of sin (not of this or that sin, as sacrilege, robbery, blasphemy, &c. but of sin, any sin, every sin: though men deem it trivial, they shall find it mortal) is death.