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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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We are all by nature prone to Idolatry: when we were little children, we loved babies: and being grown men, we are apt to love Images. And as Babies be children's Idols. so Idols & Images be mens Babies. It seems that Idols are fittest for Babes, therefore so the Apostle •its his caution,1 Babes keep your selves from Idols. As all our knowledge comes by sense, so we naturally desire a sensible object of devotion: finding it easier to see Pictures, then to comprehend Doctrines, and to form prayers to the Images of men, then to form man to the Image of God.
Wee are all by nature prone to Idolatrie: when we were little children, we loued babies: and being growne men, we are apt to loue Images. And as Babies be childrens Idols. so Idols & Images be mens Babies. It seemes that Idols are fittest for Babes, therefore so the Apostle •its his caution,1 Babes keepe your selues from Idols. As all our knowledge comes by sense, so we naturally desire a sensible obiect of deuotion: finding it easier to see Pictures, then to comprehend Doctrines, and to forme prayers to the Images of men, then to forme man to the Image of God.
Nor can they excuse themselves from Idolatry, by saying they put their confidence in God, not in the Images of God. For when the Israelites had made their golden Calf, and danced about, one calf about another; they were not such beasts, as to ⟨p. 24⟩think that beast their God. But so can Superstition besot the mind, that it makes us not men, before it can wake us Idolaters. What do they say?