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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.
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4. Minima materialia maximorum: little sins are the materials of great sins. The seeds of all sins are naturally in us: not so much as treason, homicide, perjury, but are in us Quoad potentiam, yea Quoad naturam et propensionem: there is in our nature a proclivity to them. Now the heart is so apt ground to produce and mature these Innata mala, inbred seeds to actualls, that without the preventing Grace of GOD we cannot avoid them. Thou art a Christian, and fearest not that ever thou shouldst apostate into the denial of thy Saviour: yet let me say thou hast the materials of this sin within thee, timorousness and self-love. Thou sayest, Sure I shall never be a drunkard, that belluine folly shall never apprehend me: yet thou hast the materials of this within thee, and that naturally and hereditarily from thy first Grandmother Eve: a sweet tooth in thy head, a liquorish appetite to delicate meats, and intoxicating wines.
4. Minima materialia maximorum: little sinnes are the materaills of great sinnes. The seedes of all sinnes are naturally in vs: not so much as treason, homicide, periurie, but are in vs Quoad potentiam, yea Quoad naturam et propensionem: there is in our nature a procliuitie to them. Now the heart is so apt ground to produce and mature these Innata mala, inbred seeds to actualls, that without the preuenting Grace of GOD we cannot auoid them. Thou art a Christian, and fearest not that euer thou shouldst apostate into the deniall of thy Sauiour: yet let me say thou hast the materialls of this sinne within thee, timorousnesse and selfe-loue. Thou saiest, Sure I shall neuer be a drunkard, that belluine folly shal neuer apprehend me: yet thou hast the materialls of this within thee, and that naturally and hereditarily from thy first Grandmother Eue: a sweet tooth in thy head, a liquourish appetite to delicate meates, and intoxicating wines.
Thou canst not be a traitor, nor admit of conspiracy against thy Sovereign, yet the material of this wickedness is within thee. That which we call Gunpowder, is made of the fault & fatter earth: in the ground are the materials, which when Art hath concocted, chym'd, prepared, charged, and discharged, it overturns towers and towns, forts and cities. We were once too near justifying by a woeful experience the violence of it: but the goodness of our good Lord Jesus averted it. So in thy earth, thy heart, there is this salt and spumy matter, the mineral of treason; unless the reason of a man, and Religion of a Christian keep it from eruption. Thou art resolved