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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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1. They come not to Christ empty-handed. It was Gods charge to Israel (Deut. 16.) but we think now,1 we are delivered from that Law,) Non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus: Thou shalt not appear before me empty. You plead, God cares not for our Sheep and Oxen, or the fat of our Rams: for all the World is his. He requires it not for himself, though due to himself. Give it then to his poor Ministers, to his poor members here.
1. They come not to Christ empty-handed. It was Gods charge to Israel (Deut. 16.) but wee thinke now,1 wee are deliuered from that Law,) Non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus: Thou shalt not appeare before mee emptie. You plead, God cares not for our Sheepe and Oxen, or the fatte of our Rammes: for all the World is his. Hee requires it not for himselfe, though due to himselfe. Giue it then to his poore Ministers, to his poore members heere.
I know not how happily, I am fallen into that I would never be out of, Charity. Most men now-a-days (as it is in the Proverb) are better at the Rake, then at the Pitch-fork; readier to pull in, then give out. But if the Lord hath sown plentiful Seed, he expects plentiful Fruits; an answerable measure, heaped, and shaken, and thrust together, and running over. If God hath made the Bushel great, make not you the Peck small. Turn not the bounty of Heaven, to the scarcity of Earth. We love the retentive well, but our expulsive is grown weak. But as God hath made you Divit•• in arca, so beseech him to make you Divites in conscientia. Accept not only the distributive virtue from Heaven, but affect the communicative virtue on Earth.