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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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He dwelt in Tents.
Two things are observable in the holy Patriarchs, and commendable to all that will be heirs with them of eternal life.
TWo things are obseruable in the holy Partriarchs, and commendable to all that wil be heires with them of eternall life.
1. Their contempt of the world. They that dwell in Tents, intend not a long dwelling in a place. They are movables, ever ready to be transferred at the occasion and will of the Inhabiter, Hebr. 11.1 Abraham dwelt intents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same Promise. The reason is added. For he looked for a City which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is GOD. These Saints studied not to enlarge their barns, as the rich Cosmopolite, Luke 12. or to sing Requiems to their souls,2 in the hoped perpetuity of earthly habitations. Soul live; thou hast enough laid up for many years: Fool! he had not enough for that night. They had no thought, that their houses should continue for ever,3 and their dwelling places to all generations; thereupon calling their lands after their own names. God convinceth the foolish security of the Jews, to whom he had promised (by the Messiah to be purchased) an everlasting royalty in heaven;4