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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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THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFULNESS, › FEAR.THE SACRIFICE OF THANKFVLNESSE, › FEARE.
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.
Now this Fear is a most due and proper affection: and (I may say) the fittest of all to be towards God. Indeed God requires our Love: but we must think, that then God stoops low, and bows himself down to be loved of us. For there is such an infinite inequality betwixt God and us, that without his sweet dignation, and descending to us, there could be no fitness of this affection. But look we up to that infinite glory of our great Lord: look we down on the vileness of our selves, sinful dust: and we will say, that by reason of the disproportion between us, nothing is so suitable for our baseness to give so high a God,1 as Fear. Therefore, Come ye Children hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 2Fear the Lord all ye his Servants; as well as Love the Lord all ye his Saints.
Now this Feare is a most due and proper affection: and (I may say) the fittest of all to be towards God. Indeed God requires our Loue: but we must thinke, that then God stoupes low, and bowes himselfe downe to be loued of vs. For there is such an infinite inequalitie betwixt God and vs, that without his sweet dignation, and descending to vs, there could be no fitnesse of this affection. But looke we vp to that infinite glory of our great Lord: looke we downe on the vilenesse of our selues, sinfull dust: and we will say, that by reason of the disproportion betweene vs, nothing is so sutable for our basenesse to giue so high a God,1 as Feare. Therefore, Comeye Children hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord. 2Feare the Lord all ye his Seruants; as well as Loue the Lord all ye his Saints.