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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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His Strength: A Hunter.
Hunting, in it self, is a delight lawful and laudable: and may well be argued for, from the disposition that God hath put into creatures. He hath naturally inclined one kind of Beasts to pursue another, for mans profit and pleasure. He hath given the Dog a secret instinct to follow the Hare, the Hart, the Fox, the Bore: as if he would direct a man by the finger of Nature to exercise those qualities, which his divine Wisdom created in them.
Hunting, in it selfe, is a delight lawfull and lawdable: and may well be argued for, from the disposition that God hath put into creatures. Hee hath naturally inclined one kind of Beastes to pursue another, for mans profite and pleasure. Hee hath giuen the Dogge a secret instinct to follow the Hare, the Hart, the Foxe, the Bore: as if hee would direct a man by the finger of Nature to exercise those qualities, which his diuine Wisedome created in them.
There is no Creature but may teach a good soul one step toward his Creator. The World is a Glass, wherein we may contemplate the eternal power and majesty of God. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the World, 1are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and God-head. It is that great Book, of so large a Character, that a man may run and read it. Yea, even the simplest man that cannot read, may yet spell out of this Book, that there is a GOD. Every Shepherd hath this Calendar, every Plough-man this ABC. What that French Poet divinely sung, is thus as sweetly Englished, The World's a School; where in a general Story, God always reads dumb Lectures of his Glory.
There is no Creature but may teach a good soule one step toward his Creator. The World is a Glasse, wherein we may contemplate the eternall power and maiesty of God. For the inuisible things of him, from the creation of the World,