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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.
6. The curses of the poor shall never hurt thee. Though the causeless curse shall never come; yet it is happy for a man so to live, that all may bless him. Now the Plain man shall have this at last. Gallant prodigality, like fire in flax, makes a great blaze, a hot show: but Plain hospitality, like fire in solid wood, holds out to warm the poor: because God blesseth it. So I have seen hot-spurs in the way gallop amain; but the Ivy-bushes have so stayed them, that the Plain traveller comes first to his journeys end.
6. The curses of the poore shall neuer hurt thee. Though the causlesse curse shall neuer come; yet it is happy for a man so to liue, that all may blesse him. Now the Plaine man shall haue this at last. Gallant prodigalitie, like fire in flaxe, makes a great blaze, a hote shew: but Plaine hospitality, like fire in solide wood, holds out to warme the poore: because God blesseth it. So I haue seene hote-spurres in the way gallop amaine; but the Iuy-bushes haue so staied them, that the Plaine traueller comes first to his iournies end.
7. It shall be thy best comfort on thy death-bed; Conscientia benè peractae vitae, the conscience of an innocent life. On this staff leans aged Samuel: Whose Ox er Ass have I taken? To whom have I by fraud or force done wrong? On this pillow doth sick Hezekiah lay his head.1 Remember Lord, that I have walked before thee ⟨p. 25⟩in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. So Job solaceth himself. My heart shall not condemn me for my days. When no clogs of usury with their heavy pressures, nor folds of injustice with their troublesome vexations, disquiet our peace-desiring sides, or lie upon our consciences. When thou hast no need to say to thine heir, Restore this or that which I have fraudulently or unjustly taken away. You see how false the Proverb was; Plain-dealing is a Jewell; and he that useth it shall die a beggar: But it is well returned in the supplement; he that will not use it, shall die a dishonest man.