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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 THREE DIVINE SISTERS. › CharityTHE THREE DIVINE SISTERS. › Charitie
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.
1. For Latitude, Love is the greatest. Faith and Hope are restrained within the limits of our particular persons. The just man lives by his own faith: and hopes good to himself; but Love is like the Vine, which God brought out of Egypt, 1and cast out the heathen to plant it, which covereth the mountains with the shadow of the boughs, & spreads the branches unto the sea and the rivers: It is like the Sun in the sky, that throws his comfortable ⟨p. 16⟩beams upon all; and forbears not to warm even that earth that beareth weeds. Love extends to earth & heaven. In heaven it affecteth God the Maker and mover: the Angels, as our Guardians; the triumphant Saints, for their pious sanctity. On earth, it embraceth those that fear the Lord especially: it wisheth conversion to those that do not: it counsels the rich: it comforts the poor: it reverenceth superiors, respecteth inferiors: doth good to friends, no evil to foes: wisheth well to all. This is the latitude of Charity. The property of faith, is to receive into it self: the property of love, to lay out it self to others. So that faith hath but narrow limits, but the extent of Love is universal, not bounded with the world. Faith believes for thy self, but Charity derives, & drives the effects of thy faith to others. Thy faith relieves thy self, thy charity thy brother.
1. For Latitude, Loue is the greatest. Faith and Hope are restrayned within the limits of our particular persons. The iust man liues by his owne faith: and hopes good to himselfe; but Loue is like the Vine, which God brought out of Egypt, 1and cast out the heathen to plant it, which couereth the mountaines with the shadow of the boughes, & spreads the branches vnto the sea and the riuers: It is like the Sunne in the skie, that throwes his comfortable ⟨p. 16⟩beames vpon all; and forbeares not to warme euen that earth that beareth weeds. Loue extends to earth & heauen. In heauen it affecteth God the Maker and mover: the Angels, as our Guardians; the triumphant Saints, for their pious sanctitie. On earth, it imbraceth those that feare the Lord especially: it wisheth conversion to those that do not: it counsels the rich: it comforts the poore: it reverenceth superiors, respecteth inferiors: doth good to friends, no evill to foes: wisheth well to all. This is the latitude of Charity. The property of faith, is to receyue into it selfe: the property of loue, to lay out it selfe to others. So that faith hath but narrow limits, but the extent of Loue is vniversall, not bounded with the world. Faith beleeues for thy selfe, but Charity deriues, & driues the effects of thy faith to others. Thy faith relieues thy self, thy charity thy brother.