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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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3. Lastly, thou must give thy Gold also: a pure Heart, tried in the Furnace of Affliction and sublimed from all corruption. And because God only knows the Heart, and the World must judge by thy Fruits; give thy spiritual Gold to Christ, and thy temporal Gold to his poor members. Here take with thee three Cautions.
3. Lastly, thou must giue thy Gold also: a pure Heart, tryed in the Furnace of Affliction and sublim'd from all corruption. And because God onely knowes the Heart, and the World must iudge by thy Fruites; giue thy spirituall Gold to Christ, and thy temporall Gold to his poore members. Here take with thee three Cautions.
1. That all these Gifts be derived from an honest Heart. It is said of these Magi, They opened their Treasures, and presented unto him Gifts. Mans Heart is his Treasury: thou must open that, when thou presentest any Gift to ⟨p. 100⟩the Lord. He that comes with an open Hand, and a shut Heart, shall be answered of God, as Belshazzar was of Daniel; Keep thy Rewards to thy self, and give thy Gifts to another.
1. That all these Gifts be deriued from an honest Heart. It is said of these Magi, They opened their Treasurs, and presented vnto him Gifts. Mans Heart is his Treasurie: thou must open that, when thou presentest any Gift to ⟨p. 100⟩the Lord. He that comes with an open Hand, and a shut Heart, shall be answerd of God, as Belshazzar was of Daniel; Keepe thy Rewards to thy selfe, and giue thy Giftes to another.
2. That thy Gifts observe the true latitude of Devotion; which endeavours to extend it self to the glory of God, the good of thy Brother, and the salvation of thy own Soul. And to all these three, may these three Gifts of the Wise-men be preferred. The Incense of Prayer, respects God: the Gold of Charity respects our Neighbour: and the Myrrh of Mortification respects our selves.