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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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3. In the air, the Birds fly high above our reach, yet we have gins to fetch them down. A lure stoops the highest-soaring hawk. Nay, Art makes one foul catch another, for mans delight and benefit. Incredible things, if they were not ordinary. Snares, limetwigges, net•es tame them all: even the Pelican in the Desert, and the Eagle amongst the cedars. Thus saith our Apostle, verse 7. Every kind (not every one of every kind, but every kind or nature of all) of beasts, of birds, of serpents, and of things in the Sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of the nature of man: but the Tongue can no man tame, &c.
3. In the ayre, the Birds flie high aboue our reach, yet we have ginnes to fetch them downe. A lure stoops the highest-soaring hawke. Nay, Art makes one foule catch another, for mans delight and benefite. Incredible things, if they were not ordinary. Snares, limetwigges, net•es tame them all: even the Pellican in the Desart, and the Eagle amongst the cedars. Thus saith our Apostle, verse 7. Every kinde (not every one of every kinde, but every kinde or nature of all) of beasts, of birds, of serpents, and of things in the Sea, is tamed, and hath beene tamed of the nature of man: but the Tongue can no man tame, &c.
Thus far then Saint James his proposition passeth without opposition. The tongue can no man tame. The ⟨p. 36⟩tongue is too wild for any man's taming. It would be a foolish exception, (and yet there are such profane tongues to speak it) that woman stands without this compass and latitude: and to infer, that though no man can tame the tongue, yet a woman may: It is most unworthy answer. Woman, for the most part, hath the glibbest tongue: and if ever this impossibility preclude man, it shall much more annihilate the power of that weaker sex.1 She is loud, saith Solomon: a foolish woman is ever clamorous. She calls her tongue, her Defensive weapon; she means offensive: a fire brand in a frantic hand doth less mischief. The Proverb came not from nothing; when we say of a brawling man, he hath a woman's tongue in his head.