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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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Nor yet was this struggling voluntary and considerate. They did not strive scientia certandi, with a knowledge capable of what they did: or with any skill of wrestling. No, it was extraordinary, moved by a higher cause, not without the presage and signification of a great effect. It portended the future concertation of two great people: neither if it had been pleasant, natural, or usual, would Rebecca have been so strangely affected, or troubled with it; as to cry out Why •m I thus? or to solicit God by prayer, to kno• what it mea•t.
Nor yet was this struggling voluntary and considerate. They did not striue scientia certandi, with a knowledge capable of what they did: or with any skill of wrastling. No, it was extraordinary, moued by a higher cause, not without the presage and signification of a great effect. It portended the future concertation of two great people: neither if it had beene pleasant, naturall, or vsuall, would Rebecca haue beene so strangely affected, or troubled with it; as to cry out Why •m I thus? or to solicite God by prayer, to kno• what it mea•t.
And is it any wonder,1 that Jacob and Esau wrestle in their mothers womb; when their seed, especially after a spiritual signification, must for ever wrestle in the world? Shall the womb of the Church on earth be ever free from ca•nall professors mingled with holy? ⟨p. 5⟩And is it possible these should live together in perfect peace, that are of so contrary natures? The wolf shall sooner dwell with the lamb, and the leopard play with the untroubled kid, and children sit unstu•g at the holes of asps The sons of Belial will not […] sons of God live in quiet: that enmity, which was once put between the seed of the Woman, and of the Serpent, will not so easily be reconciled. Indeed the seed of Esau is the greater, but they serve the less. They are moe in number, stronger in power; et cannot extend it further then the permitting hand of heaven […] it. And even whiles they do persecute the righteous, Quibus nocere volunt, prosunt plurimum, sibi autem ipsi maxime nocent: they hurt only themselves, and benefit those to whom they intended nothing less. They are our Apothecaries, to minister us bitter pills, but so, that they cannot put in one ingredient more then the Lord allows them.