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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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I know that heavier sins shall have a heavier weight of punishment: yet is the least heavy enough to sink the soul to the bottomless pit. Greater fury of iniquity shall have the hotter fire, but O let us never feel the heat of one. A little leak sinks a great vessel. Pope Marcelline being accused for Idolatry, answered for himself; I did but cast a few grains of Incense into the fire; that was little or nothing. Yes, it was manifest offering to Idols, is that nothing? Christ would not obey Satan in his minimis: he would not answer his desire in the smallest suit he could request; iof turning stones into bread, even whiles he was so hungry as forty days fasting could make him. Teaching us to deny Satan in his best motions; lest custom of having them granted make him so impudent, as to take no repulse in his greatest temptations.
I know that heauier sinnes shall haue a heauier waight of punishment: yet is the least heauy enough to sinke the soule to the bottomlesse pitte. Greater fury of iniquity shall haue the hotter fire, but O let vs neuer feele the heat of one. A little leake sinkes a great vessell. Pope Marcelline being accused for Idolatry, answered for himselfe; I did but cast a few graines of Incense into the fire; that was little or nothing. Yes, it was manifest offering to Idols, is that nothing? Christ would not obey Satan in his minimis: hee would not answer his desire in the smallest sute he could request; iof turning stones into bread, euen vvhiles hee was so hungry as forty daies fasting could make him. Teaohing vs to deny Satan in his best motions; lest custome of hauing them granted make him so impudent, as to take no repulse in his greatest temptations.
- iMat. 43.
This is the Devils method of working, as it is in the first ⟨p. 392⟩