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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.
5. Minima peccata maximas in ficiunt virtutes: a little sin infects a great deal of righteousness. The Leprosy infected the garments, and the very walls of the house; but Sin hath infected wood and wool, and walls, earth, air, beasts, plants, & planets: and stuck a scar on the crystal brow of nature it self. cFor we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travelleth in pain together until now. If the great world groan for mans sin, shall not the little world, man, groan for his own sin? Send a little temptation in at the ear, or eye; it will not rest working, till it run like poison to the heart. David let in a little leaven at his eye, it quickly wrought to his heart, gangrened to adultery, to blood; hardly cured.
5. Minima peccata maximas in ficiunt virtutes: a little sinne infects a great deale of righteousnesse. The Leprosie infected the garments, and the very walls of the house; but Sinne hath infected wood and wooll, and wals, earth, ayre, beasts, plants, & planets: and stucke a scarre on the chrystall brow of nature it selfe. cFor wee know that the whole creation groneth, and trauelleth in paine together vntill now. If the great world grone for mans sinne, shall not the little world, man, grone for his owne sinne? Send a little temptation in at the eare, or eye; it will not rest working, till it runne like poyson to the heart. Dauid let in a little leuen at his eye, it quickly wrought to his heart, gangrened to adultery, to bloud; hardly cured.
A little Coloquintida spoils all the broth: a spot in the face blemisheth all the beauty. dNaaman the Syrian