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The sacrifice of thankfulness A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the third of December,…The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December,…
The sacrifice of thankfulness A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the third of December, being the first Aduentuall Sunday, anno 1615. By Tho. Adams. Whereunto are annexed five other of his sermons preached in London, and else-where; never before printed. ...The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December, being the first Aduentuall Sunday, anno 1615. By Tho. Adams. Whereunto are annexed fiue other of his sermons preached in London, and else-where; neuer before printed. ...
London: printed by Thomas Purfoot for Clement Knight, 1616
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THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFULNESS, › Exclusively.THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFVLNESSE, › Exclusiuely.
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.
2. Sine Mel: There must be no Honey of self-complacency in this Sacrifice. 1Psal. 51. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit: a broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. A true Sacrifice consists not only (Faciendo, but Patiendo,) in doing, but in dying, or suffering for Christ.
2. Sine Melle: There must be no Honey of selfe-complacencie in this Sacrifice. 1Psal. 51. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit: a broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. A true Sacrifice consistes not onely (Faciendo, but Patiendo,) in doing, but in dying, or suffering for Christ.
In the Law, Beasts appointed for Sacrifice, were first slain, and so offered. In the Gospel, Christians must first mortify their earthly members, and crucify their carnal lusts, and then offer up themselves. As Death takes away the Natural lif•; so Mortification must take away the Sensual life.1 Moriatur ergo homo, ne moriatur: Mutetur ne damnetur: Let a man die, that he may not die: let him be changed, that he be not damned. Only the mortified man is the true living Sacrifice. It must not then be Honey to our Palates; but bitter: even so bitter, as Abnegare suos, sua, see: to deny our Friends, to deny our Goods, to deny our selves, for Christ his cause.
In the Law, Beastes appoynted for Sacrifice, were first slaine, and so offred. In the Gospell, Christians must first mortifie their earthly members, and crucifie their carnall lustes, and then offer vp themselues. As Death takes away the Naturall lif; so Mortification must take away the Sensuall life.