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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
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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, SIR HENRY CAREY, Lord HVNSDON, Viscount Rochford.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR HENRY CAREY, Lord HVNSDON, Viscount Rochford.
MY LORD,
Among the many absurdities, which give us just cause to abhor the Religion of the present Roman Church, this seemeth to me none of the least; that they have filled all the Temples under the command of their politic Hierarchy, with Idols: and changed the glory of the Invisible God, into the worship of visible Images. They invocate the Saints by them, yea they dare not serve the Lord without them. As if God had repealed his unchangeable Law; and in stead of condemning all worship by an Image, would now receive no worship without an Image. I have observed this one, among the other famous marks of that Synagogue; that they strive to condemn that which God hath justified, and to justify what he hath condemned. For the former; He hath precisely directed our Justification only by faith in the merits of Christ: this they vehemently dispute against. For the other; He hath (not without mention of his Jealousy) for bidden all worship that hath the least tang of Idolatry: this they eagerly maintain. What large Volumes have they written against the Second Commandment! as if they were not content to expunge it out ⟨image 76⟩