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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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He says not, the Lord that made heaven, bless thee upon earth: nor, the Lord that made earth, bless thee out of heaven: but the Lord that made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Zion. Blessings come originally from heaven, mediately through Zion. In the Temple let us seek, in the Temple we shall find those precious treasures and comforts of Jesus Christ.
Hee sayes not, the Lord that made heauen, blesse thee vpon earth: nor, the Lord that made earth, blesse thee out of heauen: but the Lord that made heauen and earth, blesse thee out of Sion. Blessings come originally from heauen, mediately through Sion. In the Temple let vs seeke, in the Temple wee shall finde those precious treasures and comforts of Iesus Christ.
This Temple is not without some enemies. Besides those profane Politicians, that think with one Eustathius, that there is no use of Temples: or those Massilians, who (as Damascene reports) did add to other Heresies Templorum contemptum: or those Pseudo-Apostoli, that laughed at a Temple full of Suppliants, as a house full of fools. Or those that be of Jeroboam's mind. who to settle himself in the kingdom of Israel, diverts the people from Gods house at Jerusalem. In stead of that snowy & glittering Temple, they shall have two golden representations. Zion is too far off, these shall be near home: that ⟨p. 11⟩is a tedious way of devotion, these both compendious and plausible.1 As Josephus brings him in persuading them; My good people and friends, you cannot but know that no place is without God, and that no place doth contain God; wheresoever we pray, he can hear us; wheresoever we worship, he can see us: therefore the Temple is superfluous, the journey needless; God is better able to come to you, then you are to go to him. Beside these, the Temple of God hath two kinds of foes.
This Temple is not without some enemies. Besides those prophane Polititians, that thinke with one Eustathius, that there is no vse of Temples: or those Massilians, who (as Damascen reports) did adde to other Heresies Templorum contemptum: or those Pseudo-Apostoli, that laughed at a Temple full of Suppliants, as a house full of fooles. Or those that bee of Ieroboams mind. who to settle himselfe in the kingdome of Israel, diuerts the people from Gods house at Ierusalem. In stead of that snowy & glittering Temple, they shall haue two golden representations. Sion is too farre off, these shall bee neere home: that