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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If we ask now, as the Wicked will at the latter day; Lord, 1When saw we thee hungry, and did not feed thee? When naked, and did not cloth thee? When was thy cause before us, which we defended not? I answer; any day, every day. When we hear Swearers wound and tear his holy Name in pieces: when we see Idolaters give his Honour to Carved or painted Blocks: When Ruffians speak contemptibly of his holy rites; when his Sabbaths, Sacraments, word, Ministers are vilipended; our selves standing by with a guilty silence. Oh which of us hath not been Guilty of this Ingratitude?
If we aske now, as the Wicked will at the latter day; Lord, 1When saw wee thee hungry, and did not feed thee? When naked, and did not cloth thee? When was thy cause before vs, which wee defended not? I answere; any day, euery day. When wee heare Swearers wound and teare his holy Name in peeces: when wee see Idolaters giue his Honour to Carued or painted Blockes: When Ruffians speake contemptibly of his holy rites; when his Saboths, Sacraments, word, Ministers are vilipended; our selues standing by with a guiltie silence. Oh which of vs hath not beene Guiltie of this Ingratitude?
- 1Math 25.
It was the exprobation of Athens, that she suffered those men to die in exile, ignominy, oblivion, that with their virtuous endeavours had reared her up on the Pillars of Fame. Miltiades, Aristides, Solon, Phocion; Ubi ⟨p. 38⟩vixerunt, Ubi jacent? Where lived they? where lye they? Their worthy Acts gave glory to that City, and that City covered them with the inglorious dust of obscurity. So the Lord Jesus had made us live that were dead, and we do, what we can, to let his lining name dye amongst us.