A57166:79
The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…
The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.
London: printed by T. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1663
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. A Jucundo & honesto. It is not only good, but pleasant for brethren to dwell together in Unity, not only as the dew of Hermon for profit, but as the cointment on the head of Aaron for comfort and Delight. In the unitedd Assemblies ⟨p. 61⟩of the Saints we behold the beauty of the Lord; when the members are disjointed, the body is deformed: Shave away the eye-brows only from the face, Quantillum decedit de corpore, quantum de pulchritudine, saith St. Austin, you much lessen the beauty, by so little lessening the body; Now a Schism in the Church, is the same deformity as a mutilation in the body.
6. A Jucundo & honesto. It is not only good, but pleasant for brethren to dwell together in Vnity, not only as the dew of Hermon for profit, but as the cointment on the head of Aaron for comfort and Delight. In the unitedd Assemblies ⟨p. 61⟩of the Saints we behold the beauty of the Lord; when the members are disjoynted, the body is deformed: Shave away the eye-brows only from the face, Quantillum decedit de corpore, quantum de pulchritudine, saith St. Austin, you much lessen the beauty, by so little lessening the body; Now a Schism in the Church, is the same deformity as a mutilation in the body.
- cPsal. 133.
- d•sal. 27. 6.