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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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Let me raise your Meditations from earth to heaven: the holy Angels there are called Ministering Spirits: those royal Armies fight for us against our enemies: like Nurses, they bear us up in their arms, and (though unseen) do glorious Offices for us: this is part of their fruit. 1The blessed Trinity is always working: Hitherto my Father worketh, and I work. The Father by his providence and protection, the Son by his mercy and mediation, the Holy Ghost by his grace and sanctification: all dividing the streams of their goodness, for the best behoof of the world. The more any thing furthers the common good, the more noble is the Nature, and more resembling the Creator.
Let me raise your Meditations from earth to heauen: the holy Angels there are called Ministring Spirits: those royall Armies fight for vs against our enemies: like Nurses, they beare vs vp in their armes, and (though vnseene) doe glorious Offices for vs: this is part of their fruit. 1The blessed Trinitie is alwayes working: Hitherto my Father worketh, and I worke. The Father by his prouidence and protection, the Sonne by his mercy and mediation, the Holy Ghost by his grace and sanctification: all diuiding the streames of their goodnesse, for the best behoofe of the world. The more any thing furthers the common good, the more noble is the Nature, and more resembling the Creator.
The Earth is fruitful, the Sea, the Air, the Heavens are fruitful; and shall not man bring forth fruits, for whom all these are fruitful? While all the Armies of Heaven and Earth are busied in fructifying; shall Man, of more singular graces and faculties, be idle, a burden to the world and himself? Both the Church of God for the propagation of piety, and the world it self for the upholding of his estate, requires our Fruits. If Happiness consisted in doing nothing, God that meant Adam so happy, would never have set him about business: but as Paradise was his Store-house, so also his workhouse: his pleasure was his task. There is no state of man that can privilege a folded hand: Our life is, Vita pulueris, non puluinaris. Landes, Means, and Moneys, men make the protections of Idleness: whereas Adam commanded the whole earth, yet work expected him. In Paradise all things did labour for man, now man must labour for all things. Adam did work because he was happy, we his children must work, that we may be happy. Heaven is for joys, Hell for pains, Earth for labour. God hath three houses; this is his Work-house, that above is his Ware-house. O then let us be fruitful; that others benefit may be ours, our benefit theirs; and the glory of all, the Lords. If Magistrates yield not the Fruits