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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, › The Sum.THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFVLNESSE, › The Summe.
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.
Ingratitude hath been ever held a Monster, a preternatural thing: one of those privations and deficiencies which God never made, but the devil thrust in upon the absence of the positive and primitive virtues. Here upon we call an Ingrateful person, an unnatural man.
Ingratitude hath been euer held a Monster, a preternaturall thing: one of those priuations and def•ciencies which God neuer made, but the deuill thrust in vpon the absence of the positiue and primitiue vertues. Here vpon wee call an Ingratefull person, an vnnaturall man.
No man wonders at Dogs, and Wol•••, and Foxes; but at Satires and Centaurs, and such Monsters in nature, all gaze upon. Ebriety, Adultery, Avarice (though equally heinous) are less odious; because they have Nature and Custom on their sides. But an Unthankful person named, we all detest, as a solecism in sense, a paradox in manners, a prodigy in nature.
No man wonders at Dogges, and Wol•••, and Foxes; but at Satyres and Centaures, and such Monsters in nature, all gaze vpon. Ebrietie, Adulterie, Auarice (though equally hainous) are lesse odious; because they haue Nature and Custome on their sides. But an Vnthankefull person named, we all detest, as a sole•isme in sense, a paradoxe in maners, a prodigie in nature.
To demonstrate this sin to be so far from humanity, that the very Beasts abhor it. There is a St•ry of a poor man, that went often to a Forrest to gather Sticks; where suddenly one day, he heard the voice of a man in distress: making towards it, he found a rich Neighbour fallen into a deep Pit; and together with him an Ape, a Lyon, and a Serpent: he made his moan, being endangered both of the Pit, and of the Beasts: Pity and Charity moved the poor man to help the rich, and that seldom moves the rich to help the poor; He lets down the Cord, wherewith he bound his Sticks, and up comes the Ape: Again he puts for the man, and the Lyon ascends: A third offer he makes, and the Serpent takes the advantage: last he draweth up the man; who freed by his help from instant death, promised him a bountious requital,