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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, › Comprehensively.THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFVLNESSE, › Comprehensiuely.
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.
Paul beseecheth his Romans, that they would present themselves a Living (or quick) Sacrifice to God: 1When infirmities have Crazed it, and age almost razed it, then to offer it: alas; it is not a living, but a dying; not a quick, but a sick Sacrifice. This must be a whole and holy Oblation.
Paul beseecheth his Romans, that they would present themselues a Liuing (or quicke) Sacrifice to God: 1When infirmities haue Craz'd it, and age almost raz'd it, then to offer it: alasse; it is not a liuing, but a dying; not a quicke, but a sicke Sacrifice. This must be a whole and holy Oblation.
2. Of the Sacrificer. The life a•d soul of a Sacrifice, is not the outward action, but the inward affection of the Heart. Mens cuiusque, is est quisque: As the Mind is, so is the Man: as the Man is, so is his Sacrifice. If we bring our Sheep to Gods Altar, and them alone; we had as good have left them behind us, as an unprofitable Carriage. 1Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? With burnt offerings, and Calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams, or with ten thousand rivers of Oil? Shall I give my first borne for my transgression, the ⟨p. 21⟩fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? No, learn an other Oblation. God hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth he require of thee, but to Do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?