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Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habitFiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit
Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King James into blessedness. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the triennial visitation of the right reverend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chapel by Guildhall, at the solemn election of the right honourable the lord major of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Cross, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Cross. August 5. By Tho: Adams.Fiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King Iames into blessednesse. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the trienniall visitation of the right reuerend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chappell by Guildhall, at the solemne election of the right honorable the lord maior of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Crosse. August 5. By Tho: Adams.
London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for John Grismand, 1626London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for Iohn Grismand, 1626
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Dixit Vinitori. Such is the honour God §3doth his Ministers, to acquaint them with his own purposes.1 Surely, the Lord will do nothing, but he first revealeth it to his servants, the Prophets. Nothing, which may conduce to the office of their Ministry, and the good of his Church.2 To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven. To you, not to the world, they have no such revelation. It is given, it's none of your inheritance you were not borne to it. To know Mysteries, Sapere alta not common things. Of the kingdom (not secular; such mysteries are for the knowledge of Statizing Jesuits; but) of heaven. Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I mean to do? 3The matter concerned Sodom, not Abraham: yet was it revealed to Abraham, not to Sodom. But doth God need any mans counsel? 4Who hath at any time been his Counsellor? Will the Potter take advice of his pots? No; when Christ asked Philip where supply of bread might be had for the multitude;5 This be• said to prove him: for he ⟨p. 8⟩himself knew what he would do. His questions are not his, but our satisfactions. Thus doth he credit his own Ordinance, teaching the world how to esteem of them whom himself so singularly honours. How poor a place soever they find in mens thoughts, the King of heaven and earth calls them to his counsel. Priest, 6was a title whereof the Princes of Israel were ambitious: they would not, every man have written his name on his rod, but in hope that this Dignity might fall to his lot. Now, is the Ministry of the Gospel inferior to that of the Law? Was the service of death more glorious then the service of life, and salvation? lf the Evangelical Covenant be better, is the Ministration worse? The Sons of the great think scorn of such an employment: what they held an honour, these count a disparagement: In one and the same subject meets their ambition and our scorn. It is ill when the Fig-tree shall despise the Dresser, but it would be far worse if the Dresser should despise the Fig-tree.