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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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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 h•s 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.
2. To our Neighbours. There are some sinnes that hurt not the doer onely, but many sufferers. These are districtly the sinnes of the tongue and the hand. There are other sinnes private and domesticall: the sting and smart whereof dyes in the o•ne soule; and without further extent, plagues onely the person of the committer. So the Lavish is sayde, no mans foe but h•s own: the proud is guilty of his owne vanity: the slothfull beares his owne reproch: and the malicious wasteth the marrow of his owne bones, whiles his envied obiect shines in happinesse. Though perhaps these sinnes insensibly wrong the common-wealth, yet the principall and immediate blow lights on themselues. But some iniquities are swords to the Countrey; as oppression, rapine, circumvention: some incendiaries to the whole land; as evill and vnrnly tongues.
3 To the whole world. If the vastate ruins of ancient monuments, if the depopulation of Countries, if the consuming fires of contention, if the land manured with blood; had a tongue to speak, they would all accuse the Tongue for the original cause of their woe. Slaughter is a lamp, and blood the oil; and this is set on fire by the tongue.