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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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When Christ was first revealed to poor Shepherds, he was not without a Qu•re of Angels singing his Glory.1 Let him be in the Wilderness among wild Beasts,2 even those glorious Spirits are his Pensioners, and minister to his wants.3 He comes hungry to a Figtree, to demonstrate his natural infirmity: but finding no fruit on it, he curseth the Figtree; Never Fruit grow on thee hereafter, to declare his Power. Must he pay tribute? Yet the Kings Son should pay none: but he is content to be a Subject; he will pay it: but he bids Peter go to the Sea,4 and take it out of a Fishes mouth. To show his Humility, he will pay it; but to show his Divinity, he bids the Sea pay it for him. He that undertook the Misery to be whipped;5 did also to prove his Majesty, whip the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple: 6Which was no less then a miraculous Wonder, that a private man should do it without resistance. Yea, when he was dying between two Thieves, he ⟨p. 95⟩so qualifies the baseness of the Cross, that he works in the heart of one,7 to call him Saviour, and to desire remembrance in his Kingdom. When his Soul was leaving his Body, as a man; even then he rent the Veil of the Temple, shook the Earth, tore the Rocks, opened the Graves; to prove that he was GOD.
When Christ was first reuealed to poore Shepheards, hee was not without a Qu•re of Angels singing his Glorie.1 Let him be in the Wildernesse among wild Beastes,