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A01379	Fiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King Iames into blessednesse. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the trienniall visitation of the right reuerend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chappell by Guildhall, at the solemne election of the right honorable the lord maior of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Crosse. August 5. By Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.; Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. Barren tree. aut; Adams, Thomas, fl. 11612-1653. Temple. aut	1626 (1626)	STC 115; ESTC S115603	103,732	219

that wee are and when she sees vs proud and forgetfull of our selues shee thinkes with her selfe Why should not shee that is descended as well as we beare vp her plumes as high as ours Therefore she so often borrowes wings of the winde to mount aloft into the ayre and in the streets and high wayes dasheth herselfe into our eyes as if shee would say Are you my kinred and will not know me will you take no notice of your owne mother To taxe the folly of our ambition the dust in the street takes pleasure to bee ambitious The Iewes in their mourning vsed to rend their garments as if they would bee reuenged on them for encreasing their pride and keeping them from the sight of their nakednesse Then they put on sackcloth and that sackcloth they sprinkled ouer with dust and ouerstrawed with ashes to put God in minde that if hee should arme his displeasure against them he should but contend with dust and ashes and what glory could that bee for him Shall the dust praise thee O God or art thou glorified in the pit Nay rather how often doth the Lord spare vs because hee remembers wee are but dust To shew that they had lifted vp themselues aboue their creation and forgot of what they are made now by by Repentance returning to their first Image in all prostrate humility they lay in the dust confessing that the wind doth not more easily disperse the dust then the breath of God was able to bring them to nothing Thus Dust is not onely Materia nostra or Mater our Mother or matter wherof we are made for our foundation is in the dust But Patria nostra our Countrey where we shall dwell Awake yee that dwell in the dust We are no better then the dust wee shake off from our feete or brush off from our clothes O therefore let vs turne to God in dust before hee turne vs into dust Yea Saint Augustine goes further and sayes that not onely the bodies of all men but euen the soules of some men are no better then dust They are so set vpon earth and earthly things that they are transformed into earth and dust and so become the food of that old Serpent whose punishment was to eate the dust For Ashes they are the Embleme or representation of greater misery Dust onely shewes vs that wee haue deserued the dissolution of our bodies Ashes put vs in mind that wee haue merited also the destruction of our Soules Ashes are the leauings of the fire the offalls of consumed substances When God shall giue vp the largest buildings of Nature to the rage of that Element it shall reduce them to a narrowe roome the remnants shall bee but ashes This was all the Monument of those famous cities Sodome Gomorra and the rest heapes of ashes Ecce vix totam Hercules impleuit vrnam sayes the Poet that great Gyant scarce makes a pitcher of ashes For this cause the Ancients vsed to repent in Ashes remonstrating to themselues that they deserued burning in endlesse fire more then those Ashes wherein they wallowed Yea if Abraham compared himselfe to dust and ashes I may compare my soule to a sparke hid in the Ashes which when sickenesse and death shall stirre vp like fire shee takes her flight vpwards and leaues the heauy fruitlesse ashes of my bodie behind her In both wee haue a L●sson of our owne mortalitie The finger of GOD hath written the Epitaph of man the condition of his bodie like Characters printed in the Dust. Mans body so well as the yce expounds that Riddle the gignit filia matrem the daughter begets the mother Dust begot a bodie and a bodie begets Dust. Our bodies were a● first strong Cities but then wee made them the Forts of Rebels our offended Liege sent his Serieant Death to arrest vs of high Treason And though for his mercies sake in Christ hee pardoned our sinnes yet hee suffers vs no more to haue such strong houses but le ts vs dwell in paper Cottages mudde walles mortall bodies Methusalem liued nine hundred sixtie nine yeares yet hee was the sonne of Enoch who was the sonne of Iared who was the sonne of Malaleel who was the sonne of Cainan who was the sonne of Enos who was the sonne of Seth who was the sonne of Adam who was the sonne of Dust. Aske the woman that hath conceiued a childe in her wombe Will it bee a Sonne Peraduenture so Will it bee well formed and featured Peraduenture so Will it be wise Peraduenture so Will it be rich Peraduenture so Will it be long-liued Peraduenture so Will it be mortall Yes this is without peraduenture it will die Euen a Heathen when hee heard that his son was dead could say without changing countenance Scio me genuisse mortalem I know that I begot a mortall man An olde man is said to giue Alexander a little Iewell and tolde him that it had this vertue so long as hee kept it bright it would out-value the most fine golde or precious stone in the world but if it once tooke dust it would not bee worth a feather What meant the Sage but to giue the Monarch an Embleme of his owne body which being animated with a Soule commanded the world but once fallen to dust it would be worth nothing for a liuing dog is better then a dead Lyon I conclude I call you not to casting Dust on your heads or sitting in Ashes but to that sorrow and compunction of Soule whereof the other was but an externall Symbole or testimonie Let vs rend our hearts and spare our garments humble our soules without afflicting our bodies It is not a corps wrapp'd in Dust and Ashes but a contrite heart which the Lord will not despise Let vs repent our sinnes and amend our liues so God will pardon vs by the merites saue vs by the mercies and crowne vs with the glories of Iesus Christ. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE TRIENNIALL Visitation of the Right Reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of LONDON in Christ-Church BY THOMAS ADAMS LONDON Printed by Aug. Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1625. A VISITATION SERMON ACTES 15.36 And some dayes after Paul said vnto Barnabas Let vs goe againe and visite our Brethren in euery Citie where wee haue preached the Word of the Lord and see how they doe THere bee certaine royall Lawes which Christ and his Apostles made for eternal vse to the obseruation whereof all Christian Nations and persons are vnchangeably bound And there be some ritual things which were at the first conuenient but variable according to the difference of times and places Strictly to impose all these circumstances on vs were to make vs not the sonnes but the slaues of the Apostles That is a fond scrupulositie which would presse vs in all fashions with a conformitie to the Primitiue times as if the Spouse of Christ might not weare a lace or a border for which shee

Sonne by his mercy and mediation the Holy Ghost by his grace and sanctification all diuiding the streames of their goodnesse for the best behoofe of the world The more any thing furthers the common good the more noble is the Nature and more resembling the Creator The Earth is fruitfull the Sea the Ayre the Heauens are fruitfull and shall not man bring foorth fruites for whom all these are fruitfull While all the Armies of Heauen and Earth are busied in fructifying shall Man of more singular graces and faculties be idle a burden to the world and himselfe Both the Church of God for the propagation of pietie and the world it selfe for the vpholding of his estate requires our Fruites If Happinesse consisted in doing nothing God that meant Adam so happy would neuer haue set him about businesse but as Paradise was his Store-house so also his work-house his pleasure was his taske There is no state of man that can priuiledge a folded hand Our life is Vita pulueris non puluinaris Landes Meanes and Moneyes men make the protections of Idlenesse whereas Adam commaunded the whole earth yet worke expected him In Paradise all things did labour for man now man must labour for all things Adam did worke because he was happy wee his children must worke that wee may bee happy Heauen is for ioyes Hell for paines Earth for labour God hath three houses this is his Worke-house that aboue is his Ware-house O then let vs bee fruitfull that others benefit may bee ours our benefit theirs and the glory of all the Lords If Magistrates yeeld not the Fruits of Iustice Ministers the fruits of knowledge priuate men the fruits of Charitie and Obedien●e it is as vnnaturall as if the Sunne should forget to shine or the earth to fructifie God made all these for man hee made man for himselfe of vs he lookes for Fruit of vs let him finde it from vs accept it in vs increase it and to vs reward it through Him in whome alone wee expect mercie Iesus Christ. The successe followes Non inuenio We haue brought the Lord into his Vineyard heard him calling for the Dresser shewing him a Tree telling him of a three yeares expectation now if after all this we inquire for the euent himselfe certifies vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I finde none None Peraduenture he came before the season Nondum tempus erat Ficorum When should a Tree bring forth fruits but Tempore suo This is the praise of the good Tree that it brings foorth the fruit in due season If the Figge-tree could haue obiected to the Owner as Elisha to his seruant Hoccine tempus Is this a time to plant Vineyards or gather fruit Or as the man replyed to his neighbour that came to borrowe loaues at midnight Is this a time to lend Bread when my selfe and family are in bed The Spring is the season of fructifying the Autumne of gathering When the time of the singing of Birds is come Then the Figtree puts foorth her greene Figges But Cum fermento perfundatur puluis when the dust is leauened with myre and the bands of Orion haue lock'd vp the influence of Heauen Who seeks fruit in Winter hee must be content with Winter fruit There is the Winter of an afflicted Conscience no maruell then if neither ripe Figges nor so much as greene leaues appeare when all the Sappe is retyred to the Roote as in extreame cold the bloud runnes to the heart to succour it When the Babylonians required of their captiue Israelites some Hebrewe Songs they could soone answere How shall wee sing the Lordes Song in a strange Land Is this a time or place to be merry But did the Lord come out of season No hee required it not the first day or moneth but wayted the full time expecting fruit in the Autumne or Vintage season Non anté tempus querit qui per triennium venit Hee came not with a Trienniall Visitation as Episcopall Fathers vse to visite once in three yeeres but euery yeare euery moneth in the yeare weeke of the moneth day of the weeke Of another Figge-tree it is said that The time of Figges was not yet yet hee cursed it Heere the time was three yeares past without fruit yet he cursed it not But looke to it If thou wilt not fructifie Tempo●e tuo thou shalt be cut down tempore non tuo perish before thy time There is not a day in the yeare wherein hee forbeares seeking our fruit yet Venio non inuenio I find none None Nunquid quia male quasiuit Dominus Was there any errour in his search Men often seeke Bona good things non bene not in a good manner Either they faile in their Quando as Ioseph sought Christ after a dayes iourney whereas hee is too precious to bee missed one houre They shall seeke thee Tempore inveniendi when thou mayest be found Or in the right Vbi as Mary sought her Son in Cognatione Carnis among her kinred who was in Domo Patris in the Temple So the Papists seeke now him in Pictures who promised to bee found in the Scriptures Or in their Quomodo as they that seeke aliud pro illo aliud prae illo another insted of him another besides him another with him another before him which they doe not seeke for him All these seeke and misse because they seeke amisse The world is commonly mistaken in their search Quaerunt bona locis non suis they seeke for things out of their proper orbes Men seeke Honour in Pride whereas Honour is to bee found in Humilitie They seeke reputation in bloodie reuenge alas that is to bee found in Patience It is the glory of a man to passe by an offence They seeke content in Riches which is as if one should seeke for fresh water in the midst of the Sea But in none of these circumstances did this Seeker faile not in the Vbi for he sought in the Vineyard not in the Quando for he came in the Vintage not in the Quomodo for he sought fruit on that Figtree about which hee had bene at so great charges yet I finde none None Haply not so thicke with fruites as the Vines of Engedi euery Land is not a Caanan to flowe with Milke and Honey But yet some competent measure enough to pay the Land-lord rent for the ground it stands on no None If there bee none to spare whereof the owner may make money yet Sufficiat ad vsum suum ad esum suum that hee may eate the labours of his owne hands no None If the number bee not as the Sand yet let there bee a Remnant If there cannot bee a whole haruest yet let there bee a Tenth If not a Tenth yet let there bee some gleanings and that is a woefull scarcitie if the gleanings bee not allowed yet let there bee heere and there a Figge a Grape a Berry on the outmost branches

wanderers by running to Rome such superstitious places vnlesse they were weary of the Church of God would fetch home Idols If it were granted that there is some little truth among them yet who is so simple as to seeke his corne among a great heap of chaffe and that far off who may haue it at home winnowed and clensed to his hand The very sight of euill is dangerous and they bee rare eyes that doe not conuey this poison to our hearts I haue heard of some that euen by laboring in the Spanish galleys haue come home the slaues of their superstitions Egypt was alwayes an vnlucky place for Israel as Rome is for England The people soiourned there and they brought home one Calfe Ieroboam soiourned there and he brought home Two calues an old woman in all likelihood had soiourned there and shee brought home a great many The Romish Idols haue not the shape of calues they haue the sense and meaning of those calues and to fill the Temple full of Calues what is it but to make Religion guilty of Bulls Consider it well ye that make no scruple of superstitious assemblies it will bee hard for you to dwell in a Temple of Idols vntainted Not to sinne the sins of the place we liue in is as strange as for pure liquor tunn'd vp in a musty vessel not to smel of the caske Egypt will teach euen a Ioseph to sweare a Peter will learne to curse in the high Priests Hall If we be not scorch'd with the fire of bad company we shall be sure to be black'd with the smoke The soundest body that is may be infected with a contagious ayre Indeed a man may trauel through Ethiopia vnchanged but he cannot dwell there without a complexion discoloured How hath the common practise of others brought men to the deuillish fashion of swearing or to the bruitish habit of drinking by their owne confessions Superstition if it haue once got a secret liking of the heart like the plague will hang in the very clothes and after long concealement breake forth in an vnlook'd for infection The Israelites after all their ayring in the wildernesse will still smell of Egypt We read God saying Out of Egypt haue I called my Sonne That God did call his Sonne out of Egypt it is no wonder the wonder is that hee did call him into Egypt It is true that Egypt could not hurt Christ the King doth not follow the Court the Court waits vpon the King wheresoeuer Christ was there was the Church But be our Israelites so sure of their sonnes when they send them into Egypt or any superstitious places It was their presumption to send them in let it bee their repentance to call them out The familiar societie of orthodox Christians with mis●beleeuers hath by God euer been most strictly forbidden and the neerer this coniunction the more dangerous and displeasing to the forbidder No man can chuse a worse friend then one whom God holds his enemy When Religion and Superstition meet in one bed they commonly produce a mungrell generation If Dauid marry Maachah their issue proues an Absolon If Salomon loue idolatrous women here is enough to ouerthrow him with all his wisdome Other strange women only tempt to lust these to mis-religion and by ioyning his heart to theirs hee shall di●ioyne it from God One Religion matching with another not seldome breed an Atheist one of no religion at all I doe not say this is a sufficient cause of diuorce after it is done but of restraint before it is done They may be one flesh though they be not one spirit The difference of religion or vertue makes no diuorce here the great Iudges sentence shall doe that heereafter And the beleeuing husband is neuer the further from heauen though hee cannot bring his vnbeleeuing wife along with him The better shall not carry vp the worse to heauen nor the worse pull downe the be●ter to hell Quod fieri non debuit factum valet But now is there no tree in the Garden but the forbidden none for me to loue but one that hates the truth Yes l●t vs say to them in pl●ine fidelitie as the sonn●s of Iacob did to the Shichemites in dissembling policie Wee cannot giue our sister to a man that is vncircumcised either consent you to vs in the truth of our Religion or wee will not consent to you in the league of our Communion Saint Chrysostome calls this a plaine deniall of Christ. H●e that eateth of the meate offered to Idols Gustu negauit Christum hath denied Christ with his tasting If hee but handle those things with delight Tactu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his touching Though hee touch not taste not yet if he stand to looke vpon the Idolatry with patience Visu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his eyes If he listen to those execrable charmes Auditu negauit Christum hath denyed Christ with his eares Omitting all these if he doe but smell to the Incense with pleasure Odoratu negauit Christum hee hath denied Christ with his smelling It is said of the Israelites Commisti sunt inter gentes They were mingled among the Heathen What followed Presently they learned their works The reason why the Rauen returned not to Noahs Arke is giuen by some because it met with a dead carkase by the way Why doe we pray Deliuer vs from evill but that wee imply besides all other mischiefes there is an infectious power in it to make vs euill Let vs doe that wee pray and pray that wee may doe it Yea Lord free vs from Egypt estrange vs from Rome separate vs from Idols deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorie for euer and euer Amen Thus farre we haue taken a literall suruey of the Text concerning the materiall Temple externall or obiectuall Idols and the impossibilitie of their agreement Now to come neerer home to our selues in a morall Exposition here first The Temple of God Is the Church of Christ and they are so like that we often interchange the tearmes calling a Temple the Church the Church a Temple of God The materiall Temple vnder the Law was a figure of the spirituall vnder the Gospell The former was distinguished into three roomes the Porch the holy place and the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of holies The Porch prefigured Baptisme which is the doore whereby we enter into the Church of Christ. The Holy place the communion of the militant church vply earth separated from the world The Hoon of holies whereinto the high Priest only entred that once a yeare presignified the glorious kingdome of heauen wherinto the Lord Iesus entred once for all There was one Court of the Temple common whither accesse was denied to none though they were vn●leane or vncircumcised thus farre they might be admitted There was another Court within that allowed to none but