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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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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.
Thus farre then Saint Iames his proposition passeth without opposition. The tongue can no man tame. The ⟨p. 36⟩tongue is too wilde for any manstaming. It would be a foolish exception, (and yet there are such profane tongues to speake it) that woman stands without this compasse and latitude: and to inferre, that though no man can tame the tongue, yet a woman may: It is most vnworthy answere. Woman, for the most part, hath the glibbest tongue: and if euer this impossibility preclude man, it shall much more annihilate the power of that weaker sex.1 She is lowd, sayth Solomon: a foolish woman is euer clamorous. She calls her tongue, her Defensiue weapon; she meanes offensiue: a fire brand in a franticke hand doth lesse mischiefe. The Prouerbe came not from nothing; when we say of a brawling man, he hath a womans tongue in his head.