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A00993	A divine herball together with a forrest of thornes In five sermons. ... By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 111; ESTC S100387	74,730	164

righteousnesse We are easily induced to thinke our selues euery one as Simon Magas some great man There must bee a deiection of this thought an annihilation of our owne worth that we can doe nothing meete for God or worthy his iust acceptance For Serdet in distincti●●e Iudicis quod fulget in opinione operantis That is often foule in the sentence of the Iudge which shines in the imagination of him that doth it But as Physitians say no man dyes of an ague or without it so seldome any soule dyes of pride or without pride not meerly of pride for though that sicknesse were enough to kill it yet it is euer accompanied with som other disease and vicious wickednes nor without it for it is so inherent vnto mans nature that pride if it doth not prouoke yet at lest holds the dore whiles any iniquitie is doing Hence flow so many errors and factions and singularities For as in the body a raw stomach makes a rhumatick head a rhumatick head a raw stomach So in the soule an indigested conceit of some good thing in vs makes the head rume of some rheumaticke opinion or madde factious singularitie and this petulant rheume in the braine keeps the conscience raw stil that the physicke of repentance or good diet of peaceable obedience cannot helpe it Let vs correct these exorbitant and superfluous conceits which are like proude flesh vpon vs and knowe wee are able to doe nothing of our selues but God is faine to put euen good thoughts in vs. And if wee doe good from him how good soeuer it be as from him yet running through vs it gets some pollution Neither let vs run into the contrary errour as if in a stupid willfullnesse what good soeuer wee did we could not hope that God in Iesus Christ would accept it There is a thresholde of despaire below to stumble at as wel as a post of high presumption to breake our heads at There is a base deiection a sordid humility Bar●ena the Iesuite told another of his order that when the deuill appeared to him one night out of his profound humility hee rose vp to meete him and prayed him to sitte downe in his chaire for hee was more worthy to sitte there then he This did appeare a strange kind of deiectednes Surely I thinke a man should by Gods word and warrant take comfort in his wel doing and be cheared in the testimonie which a good conscience on good cause beareth to him So Dauid hartned himselfe against all the malicious slanders of his his enemies O Lord thou knowest mine innocence Good workes are the necessary and inseparable effects of a true faith We are by nature all dead in sinne and by sinne concluded vnder death Our Sauiour bore for vs this death and by his passion freed vs from eternal damnation It was not enough to scape hell how shall wee get to heauen Loe we are cloathed with the garment of his righteousnesse hung with the Iewels of his merits So not onely hell is escaped by his sufferings but heauen got by his doings Why should wee then worke what need our gardens stand so full of herbes Good reason Shall God do so much for vs and shall we do nothing for him for our selues If the Lord of a Forrest giues me a Tree it is fit I should be at the cost to cut it downe and bring it home if I will haue it I cannot say that I deserued the tree it was anothers gift but my labours must lead me to enioy that which was freely giuen me Neither can the conscience haue assurance of eternal life so frankly bestowed in Christ without a good conuersation Faith doth iustifie and workes do testifie that we are iustified In a clocke the finger of the dyall makes not the clocke to goe but the clocke it yet the finger without shewes how the clocke goes within Our external obedience is caused by our inward faith but that doth manifest how truly the clocke of our faith goes As a mans corporall actions of sleeping eating digesting walking declare his recouery from sicknesse and present health So his life witnesseth by infallible Symptomes that the disease and death of sinne is mortified in him and that he hath taken certaine hold of eternall life It is meet then that we should doe good workes but all our works are made meete and worthy in him that bought vs. I will conclude then with that Antheme made by a sweet singer in our Israel Pendemus ate credimus in te tendimus ad te non nisi per te Optime Christe AMEN THE GARDEN Or A Contemplation of the HERBES The THIRD SERMON The Song of Salomon Chap. 6. Ver. 2. My Beloued is gone downe into his Garden to the beds of spices to feede in the gardens and to gather Lillies AMB. super LVC. Non Virtus est non posse peccare sed nolle LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Iohn Budge and are to be solde at his shop at the great South-dore of Pauls and at Brittaines Burse 1616. THE GARDEN OR A Contemplation of the Herbes THE THIRD SERMON HEB. Chap. 6. Vers. 7. For the earth which drinketh in the raine that commeth oft vpon it and bringeth forth Herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiueth blessing from God THat the Herbes of our graces may be meete for the dresser contentful to GOD who hath planted watred husbanded the Garden of our hearts wee will require in them foure vertues Odour Taste Ornament Medicinall Vertue 1. That they haue a good odour God is delighted with the smell of our graces My Beloued is gone downe into his Garden to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather Lillies The vertues of Christ are thus principally pleasant and all our herbes onely smell sweetly in his Garden Because of the sauour of thy good ointment thy name is as ointment powred forth therefore doe the Virgins loue thee This sauour is sweetly acceptable in the nostrils of God All thy garments smel of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia It is his righteousnesse that giues all our herbes a good odour and in him it pleaseth God to iudge our works sweet When Noah had built an Altar and sacrificed burnt offerings on it the Lord smelled a sweet sauour and sayd I will not againe curse the ground any more for mans sake Myrrhe and Prankincense were two of the oblations which the Wise-men offered to CHRIST being an Infant Tres Reges regum Regitria dona tulerunt Myrrham homini vncto aurū thura dedere Deo Tutriafac itidem dones pia munera Christo Muneribus gratus si cupis esse tuis Pro myrrha lacrymas pro auro cor porrige purum Pro thure ex humili pectore funde preces Three kings to the great King three offerings bring Incense for God Myrrhe for man gold for king Thy Incense be the hands a white soule reares For gold giue a pure hart for

them It is not onely spoken but commanded to be written of the dying Saints that their workes follow them Their owne workes not the workes of others No righteousnes of friend liuing or of Saint dead shall doe thee good but the herbes of thy owne Garden shall bee accepted of God Lastly this Righteousnesse must excell nisi abundauerit If it come short of those that come short of heauen what hope haue you It must exceed innocence and come to reall goodnesse We haue not sufficiently discharged our duties in being painfull vnlesse wee be profitable Some will take no paines vnlesse the Diuell set them on worke They must be their owne caruers in their imployment or they will sit idle But so a man may worke and haue no thankes for his labour It is not then simply and onely bringing forth commends a ground but bringing forth herbes The fruit of Peters repentance is not to deny his Master no more but to stand to him to the death We thinke if wee forbeare our wonted notorious sinnes wee are on the sodaine excellent Christians As if God were beholden to vs for not wounding his name with oathes for not playing out Sabaoths for not rayling on his Gospell for not oppressing his poore members when we neither reliue the poore nor obey the Gospell nor hallow his Saboths nor honor his name Perhaps an Vsurer when he hath gotten enough will cease that damned trade now he is sure of heauen in a trice Alas how repents Zaccheus if he restores not Shall I goe a step higher If he giue not liberally and shew compassion to the afflicted Saints Perhaps an old Adulterer when his sappe is growne to cinders breaks off his vncleannesse When the enuious looseth his obiect he may suspend his malice But where are the returned fruits of penitence manifest and visible obedience Say the weedes are gone where be the herbes To roote vp the weedes is but the first step to heauen and some are fortie threescore yeares taking this steppe How long will it be ere their garden be set with good growing herbes But Curse ye Meroz sayd the Angell of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord and that it might fully appeare that this curse came not on them for taking part with Gods enemies and fighting against him but onely for deniall of succour the song doubles it to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty The offended Lord deliuered that Seruant to the tormentors that did not extort from his fellow that hee had no right to nor wrest away an others goods but did onely say Pay me that thou owest and in a harsh manner or vnmercifull measure required his owne due It is the forme of the last doome I was hungry and ye gaue me no meate though you tooke not away mine yet for not giuing your owne Goe yee cursed But if that ground be neere vnto cursing that brings not forth herbes what shall we say to that which brings forth weeds What hell and how many torments are prouided for oppressing Diues when Diues that but denyed his owne shall be tortur'd in endlesse flames If he were bound to an euerlasting prison that rigorously prosecuted his owne right chaleng'd his owne debt whither shall they bee cast that vniustly vexe their neighbours quarrell for that which is none of theirs and lay title to another mans proprietie If hee that giues not his coate to the naked shall lye naked to the vengeance of God then he that takes away the poore mans coate shall bee clad with burning confusion If hee that giues not wring his hands hee that takes away shall rend his heart The old world did but eate and drink build and plant marry and be merry and were swept away with the beesome of an vniuersal deluge which things were in themselues lawfull what shall become of lyars swearers adulterers idolaters malicious monstrous scandalous sinners whose workes are in themselues simply vnlawful There are 3. sorts of ground mentioned Marke 4. and the very worst of them receiues the seed yet all damned whither shall the tempest of Gods wrath driue them that would neuer giue the Gospell a religious eare O beloued waigh it Our Idle words must come to iudgement what shall be our answere for vnlawfull deedes If omission of good works be whipp'd with rods commission of impieties shall be scourged with Scorpions If they that stand in a luke-warme neutralitie shall be spewed vp sure the palpable and notorious offender shall bee troden vnder foote of a prouoked Iustice. Indifferency shall not scape and shall extreme presumption be spared that like dogges sup vp the dregges they haue vomited I haue read of a Popish Saint Henry the Dane that in a mad and hare-brain'd deuotion when wormes crawled out of a corrupt vlcer in his knee did put them in againe There are such franticke wretches that when the word hath squeased some poyson out of their consciences and driuen forth lusts like crawling worms they in a voluntary madnesse put them in againe As the Tode casts ont per poison when she goes to the water to drinke when shee hath drunke sups it vp againe Adam lost himselfe and all his posterity by one transgression and do we think can we hope that our infinite shall scape iudgement Or doe we extenuate our iniquities with such selfe-flattering mitigations that if they bee not innumerable they are pardonable and that a few shall bring no man to iudgement And what call wee this paucitie As the Glosse deales with a piece of Gratians Decretum The Text sayes Meretrix est quae multorum libidin● patet Shee is a whore who serues many mens turnes Now the Glosse brings this indefinite number to a certaine and giues Multorum a reasonable latitude saying the name of Whore should not be giuen her til she hath lyen with three and twenty thousand men So till we haue doubled iterated and multiplyed our lyes oa●hes oppressions lusts vnto thousands and thousands we do not thinke that we merite the names of lyers swearers oppressors or luxurious persons Beloued these things must be reckoned for and if nescience be beaten with stripes wilfull impiety shal be burned with fire Blessed ground then that brings forth herbes and that not in scarsitie but in 3. Plenty Many herbes THe good ground is plentifull in fruits It beares fruit good fruit much good fruit Multiplicitie of grace is requisite though not perfection What Garden is only planted with one singular kinde of herbe The Christian hath need of many graces because he is to meet with many defects to answere many tentations to fight with many enemies Therefore 2. Pet. 1. Ioyne with your faith vertue and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance c. One Iewell will not serue Christs Spouse must haue diuerse to adorne her One piece of armour wil not secure vs we know not which