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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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We see the nature of the thing to be tamed, the tongue: let us consider the difficulty of this enterprise. No man can do it. Which we shall best find, if we compare it with other members of the body. creatures of the world. With other members of the body: which are various in their faculties and offices; none of them idle.
We see the nature of the thing to be tamed, the tongue: let vs consider the difficulty of this enterprise. No man can doe it. Which wee shall best finde, if wee compare it with other members of the body. creatures of the world. With other members of the body: which are various in their faculties and offices; none of them idle.
1. The eye sees far, and beholdeth the creatures in coelo, solo, salo: in the heavens, sun and stars: on the earth birds, beasts, plants, and minerals: in the sea, fishes and serpents. That it is an unruly member, let our Grand-mother speak; whose roving eye lost us all. Let Dinah speak, her wandering eye lost her virginity, caused the effusion of much blood. Let the Jews speak concerning the daughters of Midian; what a fearful ⟨p. 33⟩apostasy the Eye procured. Yea let David acknowledge, whose petulant eye robbed Uriah of his wife and life, the land of a good soldier, his own heart of much peace. Yet this eye, as unruly as it is, hath been tamed. Did not Job make a covenant with his eyes, 1that he would not look upon a maid? The eye hath been tamed, but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly, &c.
1. The eye sees farre, and beholdeth the creatures in coelo, solo, salo: in the heavens, sunne and starres: on the earth birds, beasts, plants, and mineralls: in the sea, fishes and serpents. That it is an vnruly member, let our Grand-mother speake; whose roving eye lost vs all. Let Dinah speake, her wandring eye lost her virginitie, caused the effusion of much blood. Let the Iewes speak concerning the daughters of Madian; what a fearefull ⟨p. 33⟩