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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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PLAIN-DEALING, OR, A PRECEDENT OF HONESTY.PLAINE-DEALING, OR, A PRECEDENT OF HONESTIE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PLAIN-DEALING, OR, A PRECEDENT OF HONESTY.
PLAINE-DEALING, OR, A PRECEDENT OF HONESTIE.
GEN. 25. 27. Jacob was a Plain man, dwelling in tents.
GEN. 25. 27. Iacob was a Plaine man, dwelling in tents.
THE world (I take it in Pauls sense, Rom. 12. 2.) is grown at once deformed and subtle. And, as it is commonly seen, that misshapen trunks are houses of the sharpest wits: as it was said of the Emperor Galba, Ingenium Galbae male habitat; because he had an acute wit, with an uncomely body: nature recompensing her defection one way, with perfection another way. So the world is become ill-favoured, and shrewd-pated; as politic in brain, as it is stigmatic in limbs. Honesty, though it be elder then fraud, yet hath lost the privilege in mens estimation: It may keep the priority, ⟨p. 4⟩the superiority is gone; and it must be fain to serve the younger.