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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.
A pace is but a little space of ground; yet a thousand paces make a mile, and many miles bring to hell. Si negligis quia non pessima, caveas quia plurima. If they be not the worst, they are the most: and is it not all to one purpose, whether one Goliath, or a thousand Philistines overcome thee? The bird brings so many little straws as makes up her nest: the reprobate so many little sticks, as makes up his own burning pile. Augustine saith, there is in Sin both weight and number. Et si non timeas quando expendis, time quando numeras. Judge them by tale, and not by weight. Put a wanton speech, a loose gesture into the balance, (though Christ found it heavy, & every soul shall, for whom he did not bear it, yet) it is censured vix culpa, a little faulting, a little failing: so little, that were it less, it were nothing. But now leave thy Geometry, & come to Arithmetic: begin to number thy wanton works, and unchristian gestures, and carnal thoughts; now lo, they come in by troupes and herds, thicker then the frogs into Egypt, miraris numerum: thou standest amazed at their number, and now criest, Miserere mei Deus; Lord have mercy on me a most wretched sinner. Yet when thy recognition hath done the best, and thy memory represented those swarms of sins to thy conscience, thy view is as far short, as will be thine answer: neither can extend ad millesimam, vel minimam partem. ⟨p. 385⟩Thou hast not seen one of a thousand. tWho can understand his errors? O Lord, cleanse thou me from my secret faults.
A pace is but a little space of ground; yet a thousand paces make a mile, and many miles bring to hell. Si negligis quia non pessima, caueas quia plurima. If they be not the worst, they are the most: and is it not all to one purpose, vvhether one Goliah, or a thousand Philistims ouercome thee? The bird brings so many little strawes as makes vp her nest: the reprobate so many little sticks, as makes vp his owne burning pile. Augustine saith, there is in Sinne both weight and number. Et si non timeas quando expendis, time quando numeras. Iudge them by tale, and not by waight. Put a wanton speech, a loose gesture into the balance, (though Christ found it heauy, & euery soule shall, for whom he did not beare it, yet) it is censured vix culpa, a little faulting, a little failing: so little, that vvere it lesse, it were nothing. But now leaue thy Geometry, & come to Arithmetike: beginne to number thy vvanton works, and vnchristian gestures, and carnall thoughts; now loe, they come in by troupes and heards, thicker then the frogges into Egypt, miraris numerum: thou standest amazed at their number, and now cryest, Miserere mei Deus; Lord haue mercy on me a most wretched sinner. Yet when thy recognition hath done the best, and thy memory represented those swarmes of sinnes to thy conscience, thy view is as farre short, as will be thine answer: neither can extend ad millesimam, vel minimam partem.