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A02054	Heauen and earth reconcil'd A sermon preached at Saint Paules church in Bedford, October. 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland, Archdeacon of Bedford. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 122; ESTC S100418	32,838	52

serue God at home as if he had promised his presence to the chimney corner sooner then to the Temple Indeed sayth S. Paul dispise not prophecying but for ought I see he allowes no where the vilipending of publique prayers but rather seemes to imitate Magnifie praysing God for he prefixeth if not preferreth Pray continually and in all thinges giue thankes c. adding vnder them and Despise not Prophecying I speake it not to vilefie Preaching so principally a necessary meanes for our saluation J would ye did all Prophecie was the the speach of Moses and Paul Neither would I hearten the common disestimation and contempt of publicke Prayers both are necessarie yet is the last best if I be not deceiued so farre as the end transcendes the meanes Your health is more precious then the Physicke that recouers you though it come as farre as the East All our Preaching labours and Aimes at this to beget in you a knowledge and a conscience how to serue and prayse God Preaching is the worke of our way praysing God of our Countrey in Heauen there shall be no Sermons but euen then Hosa●na's and Halleluia's We shall spend the time nay that eternitie in praysing our Creatour and Sauiour and Sanctifiour when there shall be none to preach to vs. Loue then Preaching and doe not despise Praying both are the lightfull delightfull beames that come from your Starres your Ministers 3. In situation the Starres are placed in their Orbe and thereof being circularly and regularly carryed doe finish their course in a determinate space of time Philosophy sayth that the Sunne doth partly enlighten the Starres of Heauen But Diuinitie sayth the Sonne of Righteousnesse doth wholly enlighten his starres of the Church The Starres are placed high the more commodiously to shine to vs God hath put Ministers in an eminent place that their light might be more perspicuous Candles once accensed are not to be thrust into abstruse corners If then Paul requires it of others then much more of vs that are Starres To haue our conuersation in Heauen It is not required of the Firmament to shine so bright as the Starres more holinesse is expected of vs then in the ordinary station of a Christian whiles other mens places are lesse notable their vices are lesse notorious wee run not in a common line but are set foorth as copies of Sanctification euery blot in vs is so much more dangerous as tiis more obseruable euery Learner is apt to taxe his precedent if faultie he hath need to be circumspect that sayth to others Be ye followers of we and looke on them that walke so as you haue vs for a● ensample Wee haue all infirmities if not enormities and let S. Paul himselfe referre you to the most absolute patterne and reserue to your imitation certaine limittes Follow me as I follow Jesus Christ Wee must follow thee oh Sauiour and striue to be holy as thou ●●t holy This is our seate in Heauen and we should be like the Starres if it were possible free from Elementary corruptions To speake by roate of Repentaunce Fayth new Birth is seldome profitable when no such thing is felt in our owne bossomes or manifested in our liues We rather trust our health into those Physitians handes whose Drugges haue recouered themselues If thou hast an Angels tongue and a Deuils heart thou art no better then a Post in the crosse way that rottes it selfe to direct others or a Torch that hauing pleasured others with the light goes foorth it selfe in Smoake and stinch To speake well and doe ill is to build vp Heauen with the voyce Hell with the couersation Sic dic●●m vt qua fu●runt verba sint opera Let vs so speake that those which haue been our wordes may be our deedes In deede it should be thus Si bene dixerimus vestrum est If we haue said well it is your good Si bene vixerimus nostrum est If we haue done well it is our owne good And for Ministers words Dicunt qua dei sunt they speake that which is Gods For their liues ●atiunt qua sua sunt they doe that which is their owne but our persons are in their sight when our words are gone from their eares and withall Segnius irrita●● animos demissa per ●●res Quam qua sunr●cidis subiecta fidelibus There is a quicker perspicuitie in the eyes and a better retention of the receiued obiect then in the eares The Thunder first breakes the Cloude and le ts foorth the Lightning yet is the latter seene before the former is heard Hence it is that Examples teach soonest Longum iter per verba breue et compendiosum per exempla It is a long way by Preceptes a short by Examples The force of a hundred good Sermons is loft by one enormitie so easie is it to weaue Penelop●● webbe Let vs then haue some respect to our Life as our Doctrine the credite is a thing next tender to the Conscience Qua semelamissa postea nullus eris which once shipwrack'd thou art vndone It is a great difficultie to play an after game of Reputation It was an excellent exhortation of Paul implied no smal difficulty to Timotheus Cause thy Ministrie to be throughly liked of adorne it with a pure and holy Conuersation His charge was no lesse to Titus See that no man despise thee Say they did can Titus helpe that Paul● meaning is Giue iust cause to no man to despise thee Let them then murmure till their tongues are hoarse with contumelies so long as thou canst applaud thy selfe in the conscience of thy well deseruinges and say with that persecuted maligned reuiled yet holy Psalmist Oh Lord thou knowest mine innocence Calumnies against the Minister are facile frequent If austere with Iohn Baptist they are censured precise if sociable as Christ dissolute Our merriment is thought madnesse when others madnesse i● but merriment It is guiltinesse enough in vs to be but ill reported they will beleeue a scandall raised against vs sooner then against a Ruffian and what they dreame is so no argumentes shall euade it Men are glad of colour to despise vs great ones at once to saue their credits their purses picke quarrels with their Minister When all trickes fayle to shake off him that hath earned thy loue and bountie this shall doe it accuse him to be thine enimie and so excuse thy selfe from being his friend it is hard if the eye of Malice cannot spie a Moate in a Blacke coate or at least say it is a Moate though it be but a White one a worke of honest simplicitie I feare I am too plaine with the times that are so subtile with vs I comfort my selfe and all my partners in this common miserie Male de me dicunt sed mali they speake euill of me but they are euill men and would speake better of me if I

HEAVEN and EARTH Reconcil'd A Sermon preached at Saint Paules Church in Bedford October 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland Archdeacon of Bedford By Tho. Adams Minister of the Gospell at Willington 1. Corinth 5.19 For God was in Christ and reconciled the world to himselfe not imputing their sinnes vnto them and hath committed to us the word of Reconciliation LONDON Printed by W.W. for Clement Knight and are to be sold at his Shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the holy Lambe 1613. To the right Honourable Lord HENRY Earle of Kent Lord of Hastinge Weisford and Ruthyn RIGHT HONORABLE I Know not vnder whose winges I might better shelter an Apologie for the Ministrie then vnder your Honours who haue euer liued a ready Patron to defend vs from the oppositions and wronges of our Aduersaries making them no friendes to your selfe that are enimies to the Gospell wherein you haue procured some blessed trouble to your selfe by frequent complaintes deserued great loue of your Countrey and secured your Soule of an eternall recompence Let it be your prayse happinesse comfort that you haue not onely not liued in opposition to the Trueth as our refractary Papistes nor in the luke-warme Neutrallitie of this age that conceiues a mixt Religion compounded of Syon's and Babilon's nor thought it enough to countenaunce Preachers as some that would make God beholding to them for their lookes but you haue stoode to seconded succoured and which is yet a higher testimony relieued many a distressed Seruant of the Lord not with Micha's wages or pittances of Charitie but with ample Rewardes worthy your Honour's bountie to giue and their necessitie to receiue Let all these true and happy reasons plead for and somewhat iustifie my ambition that haue dared to looke so high for Patronage at your Honour Worthier Pennes haue contented themselues with meaner Protections It is not the excellencie of the worke but the Noblenesse of your disposition that incourageth me who am thence prompted not to feare your acceptation You that haue been s● gener●ll● Shadow of Refreshing to Ministers take from me all cause to distrust your fauour specially in the countenauncing of that written which you haue euer actually and really furthered Proceede most honoured Lord to affect the Trueth yet more zelously by your helpe to support it by your fauour to protect it so shall you make blessed vse of that Honour God hath heere inuested you withall and interest your selfe to the honour of Heauen and whiles Nobilitie without Religion dyes in infancie and is buried in the graue of Obliuion your Noble zeale or zealous Noblenesse shall liue heere to your Makers glory and the Churches comfort and hereafter leaue behind it a neuer-decaying monument of Honour which if the ingratitude of men should forget shall neuer passe the hand of God vnrewarded with glory This Booke salutes your Honour with the New yeare may they both giue you happie content The God of mercies multiply his fauours and graces on you and make your Cuppe to runne ouer with his blessinges Your Honour 's humbly deuoted Tho. Adams Heauen and Earth Reconcil'd Dan. 12.3 They that turne many to Righteousnesse shall shine as the Starres for euer and euer THese words are prophetically spoken and turne ouer to vs a golden Leafe whose Incke is Nectar and the Pen from the winges of Angels I meane the matter expressed is wholly Celestiall Quis sit finis iustorum et iustificantium iustos What shall be the end of the Righteous and of them that make them so Porta patet cael●-procul Oh procul este profan● I must in some sort open you the euerlasting Dores shew you the King of glory and your glory in him Let a holy reuerence possesse your soules say with Jacob the place is fearful none other but the House of God and this is the Gate of Heauen Suppose that great Prince set on his Throne of vniuersall Iudgement vpon all Creatures that haue borne the image of God summoned before him hauing past an irreuocable sentence will you heare what shall become of the lust Open your intellectuall sanctified eyes able with Steuen to pierce through the curl'd Cloudes and with meditations r●p't to the third Heauens behold them as heere described The Wee shall shine as the brightnes of the Firmament and they that turne many to Righteousnes shall shine as the Starres for euer and euer A loftie metaphor when the lowest part of it is not lesse high then the Firmament then the Starres Iust men shall paralell the brightnesse of the azure Skie and Ministers shall shine as Starres in it nay they shall transcend both in glory Wee shall then see the Firmament and Starres as farre below vs as now our humbled mortalitie thinkes them aboue vs and could they shine as bright as euer their creation left them the Righteous shall out-shine them for They shall be fashioned to the glorious body of Christ. The wordes may be distinguished In opus et mercedem into the Worke and the Wages Heere is Earth and Heauen in this text our Way and our Countrey dishonour and honour trouble peace Our Earth Way Trouble goes thus farre They that turne many to Righteousnesse Our Heauen Countrey Peace followes Shall shine at the Starres for euer and euer 1 We Ministers on earth are not vnfitly compared to logicall copulatiues that must ioyne togeather a Subiect and a Predicate 1. The Subiect we worke on is Men Many Men. 2. The Predicate we worke them to is Righteousnesse 3. Ministers are the Copulatiues that vnite these Conuertentes that make Men and Righteousnesse friendes which neuer naturally and heartily loued one another since that Apple set our first Parents teeth on edge 2. Our Heauen followes and there is nothing but ioy in it 1. Wee shall shine No more be counted the Drosse and off-scouring of the world as Paul sayes No more be like low Hedges which euery Nimrod hunter persecutor treades downe for his sport No more be like reiected and vnthought of things which the eye of scorne lookes ouer Wee shall stand where we shall be seene Wee shall shine 2. Not meanely and with a glimmering light but as Starres reserued to the Sonne of righteousnesse his greater and chiefe glory we shall shine as Starres 3. This for euer not like Meteors whiles a grosse spuncie squallid substaunce lastes Nor like Stella cadent● falling Starres which seeme fixed in some Spheare but are not as S. Iohn sayth They went out from vs for they were not of vs But without passing the Horizon of glory without obscuring without interposition of any Cloudes Wee shall shine for euer and euer This is our Heauen but I must keepe you on Earth awhile though you long more for the other place THE SVBIECT The Subiect we must exercise our skill on are Men temper'd of the same mould hauing a soule inspired from the breath of the same God as