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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 next, is thy life. Alas! this is so speckled with sins, so raw and sore with lusts: that as a body broken out into blains and boils, argues a corrupted liver or stomach within: so the spots and ulcers of thy life demonstrate a putrefied heart. Lo now thy witnesses. Thou art gone at the common Law of Justice: It is only the Chancery of mercy that must clear thee. What wilt thou now do? What, but humble thy self in repentance for thy false faith; take prayer in thy company, for pardon of former errors; go by the word preached; for the Minister is, as it were, the Register, to engross the deed; and desire God on the humbled knees of thy soul, to give thee a new and a true Evidence. Let this instruct us to some uses.
The next, is thy life. Alas! this is so speckled with sinnes, so raw and sore with lusts: that as a body broken out into blaines and biles, argues a corrupted liuer or stomacke within: so the spottes and vlcers of thy life demonstrate a putrified heart. Loe now thy witnesses. Thou art gone at the common Law of Iustice: It is onely the Chancerie of mercy that must cleare thee. What wilt thou now doe? What, but humble thy selfe in repentance for thy false faith; take prayer in thy company, for pardon of former errors; goe by the word preached; for the Minister is, as it were, the Register, to ingrosse the deed; and desire God on the humbled knees of thy soule, to giue thee a new and a true Euidence. Let this instruct vs to some vses.
1. Be sure that thy Evidence is good. Satan is a subtle Lawyer, (and thou doest not doubt of his malice) and will soon pick holes in it; find out tricks and cavils against it. He will winnow and sift thee, grain after grain: take heed, lest thou run not all to chaff. There is a Faith of Saints.1 Gal. 2. Now live not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life that I live, I live by the Faith of the Son of God. And there is a faith of Devils. Jam. 2.