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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.
6. Minima peccata facilius destruunt: the least sins are the most fatal to mens destruction. Anima est tota in toto: so that if the toe aches, the head feels, the eye lets fall a ⟨p. 391⟩tear, the very heart mourns. So let but the eye lust, the soul is in danger to be lost. Mors per fenestras, faith the Prophet. gDeath comes in at the windows, then enters into the Palaces, to cut off the children without, and the young men […] the streets. Is it but an unclean thought? Mors in illâ; as the children of the Prophets cried Mors in ollâ: there is death in it, and for it. A dram of poison diffuseth it self to all parts, till it strangle the vital spirits, and turn out the soul from her Tenement. hHow great a matter a little fire kindleth! It is all one whether a man be killed with the prick of a little thorn, or with the he wing of a broad sword, so he be killed. We have seen a whole arm impostumated with a little prick in the finger: if Satan can but wound our heel, (as the Poets feign of Achilles) he vvill make shift to kill us there; even from the heel to send death to the heart. Therefore Christ calls Hatred murder, a wanton eye adultery: besides the possibility of act, they are the same in the intention of heart. The hornet is a little fly, yet it stings deadly.
6. Minima peccata facilius destruunt: the least sins are the most fatall to mens destruction. Anima est tota in toto: so that if the toe akes, the head feeles, the eye lets fall a ⟨p. 391⟩teare, the very heart mournes. So let but the eye lust, the soule is in danger to be lost. Mors per fenestras, faith the Prophet. gDeath comes in at the windowes, then enters into the Palaces, to cut off the children without, and the young men 〈…〉 the streets. Is it but an vncleane thought? Mors in illâ; as the children of the Prophets cryed Mors in ollâ: there is death in it, and for it. A dramme of poyson diffuseth it selfe to all parts, till it strangle the vitall spirits, and turne out the soule from her Tenement.