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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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There be other sacrifices also for us to offer in this Temple, on this Altar. Besides our praises and prayers;1 the setting forth of our prayer as Incense, and the lifting up our hands as an evening sacrifice: there is mercy, & charitable deeds. What is devotion without compassion? What, sacrifice without mercy?2 If thy brother hath ought against thee, yea, if thou have ought that should have bin thy brothers; thy oblation will stink in Gods nostrils. It was an old complaint of the Church, that her stones were clothed, and her children naked, that the curious found matter to delight them, but the distressed found not bread to sustain them.3 Therefore saith S. Augustine, Si habes taurum pinguem, occide pauperibus: If thou have a fat Bull, sacrifice it to the poor. Though they cannot drink the blood of goats, they can eat the flesh of bulls.4 And he that saith, If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; yet will acknowledge at the last day,5 I was hungry and thou didst feed me; Come thou blessed. The poor have Gods commendatory letters to us, and our prayers be our commendatory letters to God: if we will ⟨p. 60⟩not hearken to him, how should he gratify us▪ Thus, O Christian, art thou a moving Temple of the living God.
There be other sacrifices also for vs to offer in this Temple, on this Altar. Besides our praises and prayers;1 the setting forth of our prayer as Incense, and the lifting vp our hands as an euening sacrifice: there is mercy, & charitable deeds. What is deuotion without compassion? What, sacrifice without mercy?2 If thy brother hath ought against thee, yea, if thou haue ought that should haue bin thy brothers; thy oblation will stink in Gods nostrils. It was an old complaint of the Church, that her stones were clothed, and her childrē naked, that the curious found matter to delight them, but the distressed found not bread to sustaine them.