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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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You have read (2. Sam. 24. 24.) how Areunah, like a King, gave to the King Oxen for Sacrifice, and the Instruments for Fuel: But David answered, Shall I offer burnt Offerings unto the Lord my God, of that which doth cost me nothing? These men will give God Oblations, and enough; provided they cost them nothing. The Usurer must save his Gold for his idolatrous Eye, the Drunkard for his Host, the Lustful for his Whore, the Proud for his Back, the Epicure for his Belly: Can you hope they will part from their Gold?
You haue read (2. Sam. 24. 24.) how Areunah, like a King, gaue to the King Oxen for Sacrifice, and the Instruments for Fuell: But Dauid answered, Shall I offer burnt Offerings vnto the Lord my God, of that which doth cost mee nothing? These men will giue God Oblations, and enough; prouided they cost them nothing. The Vsurer must saue his Gold for his idolatrous Eye, the Drunkard for his Host, the Lustfull for his Whore, the Proude for his Backe, the Epicure for his Belly: Can you hope they will part from their Gold?
Aurum omnes, pulsaiam pietate, colunt,
O this damned sin of Covetousness; how many it keeps from the Grace of God, and the Gates of Heaven? Men think they can never have Gold enough. They write of the Toad, that she eats of nothing but the Earth; and thereof no more, then she can hold in her foot at once: and the reason they give is, that she fears the Earth would be wasted, and none left. A fit emblem of the Covetous, who fear to take their Portion of the things God hath given them under the Sun, least they should want: when the unravelling the bottom of their Patrimony, would last to ten frugal ⟨p. 102⟩