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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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1. To our selves.1 Ver. 6. It is so placed among the members, that it defileth all. Though it were evil, as the ⟨p. 40⟩plague; and unruly, as the possessed Gergeseus, Math. 8 yet if set off with distance, the evil rests within it self. A Leper shut up in a Pesthouse, rankleth to himself, infects not others. A wild Cannibal in a prison, may only exercise his savage cruelty upon the stone walls, or iron grates. But the tongue is so placed, that being evil and unruly, it hurts all the members.
1. To our selues.1 Ver. 6. It is so placed among the members, that it defileth all. Though it were euill, as the ⟨p. 40⟩plague; and vnruly, as the possessed Gergeseus, Math. 8 yet if set off with distance, the evill rests within it selfe. A Leaper shut vp in a Pesthouse, ranckleth to himselfe, infects not others. A wild Caniball in a prison, may onely exercise his savage cruelty vpon the stone wals, or yron grates. But the tongue is so placed, that being euill and vnruly, it hurts all the members.
- 1Erasm.
2. To our Neighbours. There are some sins that hurt not the doer only, but many sufferers. These are districtly the sins of the tongue and the hand. There are other sins private and domesticall: the sting and smart whereof dyes in the o•ne soul; and without further extent, plagues only the person of the committer. So the Lavish is said, no mans foe but hs own: the proud is guilty of his own vanity: the slothful bears his own reproach: and the malicious wasteth the marrow of his own bones, whiles his envied object shines in happiness. Though perhaps these sins insensibly wrong the common-wealth, yet the principal and immediate blow lights on themselves. But some iniquities are swords to the Country; as oppression, rapine, circumvention: some incendiaries to the whole land; as evil and unruly tongues.