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hand_n	body_n	eye_n	foot_n	6,516	5	6.8863	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68162	Three sermons preached 1. In Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King Iames into blessednesse. 2. In Christs Church, at the trienniall visitation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London. 3. In the chappell by Guildhall, at the solemne election of the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of London. / By Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1625 (1625)	STC 130; ESTC S122193	12,946	28

when hee hath done cannot play the Game or like a house with many conuenient Staires Entries and other passages but neuer a faire roome all the inwards bee sluttish and offensiue It is not then Thou that knowest the Wealth or the Birth or the Head but the Heart as if in an Election that were the maine it is all if the rest be admitted on the By. Heere then wee haue three remarkeable obseruations 1. What kind of Hearts God will not chuse and we may guesse at them 2. What Hearts hee will chuse and himselfe describes them 3. Why hee will chuse men especially by the Heart First what kind of Hearts hee will not chuse and of these among many I will mention but three 1. Cor diuisum a distracted Heart part wherof is dedicated to the Lord and part to the world But hee that made all will not bee contented with a piece Aut Caesar aut nihil The seruice of two Masters in the obedience of their contrary commands is incompetible sensu composito Indeed Zacheus did first serue the world and not Christ afterward Christ and not the world but neuer the world and Christ together Many diuisions followed sinne 1. It diuided the heart from God Esai 59.2 Your sinnes haue soperated betweene you and your God 2. It diuided heart from heart God by Marriage made one of two sinne doth often by preuarication make two of one It diuided the tongue from the heart So Cain answered God when hee questioned him about Abel Am I my Brothers keeper As if hee would say Goe looke 4. It diuided tongue from tongue at the building of Babell that when one called for Bricke his fellow brings him morter and when hee spake of comming downe the other falles a remoouing the ladder 5. It diuided the heart from it selfe They spake with a double heart The originall is Psal 12.2 A heart and a heart one for the Church another for the Change one for Sundayes another for working dayes one for the King an other for the Pope A man without a heart is a wonder but a man with two hearts is a monster It is said of Iudas There were many hearts in one man and wee read of the Saints There was one heart in many men Dabo illis cor vnum Actes 4.32 a speciall blessing Now this diuision of heart is intolerable in a Magistrate when hee plyes his owne cause vnder the pretence of anothers and cares not who lose so hee bee a gayner Saint Ierome calles this Cor malè locatum for many haue hearts but not in their right places Cor habet in ventre gulosus lasciuus in libidine cupidus in lucris Naturally if the heart bee remooued from the proper seare it instantly dyes The eye vnnested from the head cannot see the foote sundered from the body cannot goe so spiritually let the heart bee vncentred from Christ it is dead Thus the Coward is sayd to haue his heart at his heele the timorous hath his heart at his mouth the enuious hath his heart in his eyes the Prodigall hath his heart in his hand the foole hath his heart in his tongue the couetous locks it vp in his chest He that knowes the hearts of all men will not chuse a diuided or misplaced heart 2. Cor lapideum a hard or stony heart This is Ingratum ad beneficia infidum ad consilia inverecundum ad turpia inhumanum ad bona temerarium ad omnia A Rocke which all the Floods of that infinite Sea of Gods mercies and Iudgements cannot soften A Stitthy that is still the harder for beating It hath all the properties of a stone it is as cold as a stone as heauie as a stone as hard as a stone as senselesse as a stone No perswasions can heate it no prohibitions can stay it no instructions can teach it no compassions can mollifie it Were it of yron it might bee wrought were it of lead it might bee molten and cast into some better forme were it of earth it might bee tempered to another fashion but being stone nothing remaines but that it bee broken What was Pharaohs greatest plague was it the murraine of Beastes was it the plague of Boyles was it the destruction of the Fruits was it the turning of their Riuers into Blood was it the striking of their First borne with death No though all these plagues were grieuous yet one was more grieuous then all Cor durum his hard heart Hee that knowes all hearts knowes how ill this would be in a Magistrate a heart which no cryes of Orphans no teares of Widowes no mourning of the oppressed can melt into pitie From such a Heart good Lord deliuer vs. 3. Cor eupidum a couetous heart the desires whereof are neuer filled A handfull of corne put to the whole heape encreaseth it yea adde water to the Sea it hath so much the more but hee that loueth Siluer Eccles 5.10 shall neuer bee satisfied with Siluer One desire may bee filled but another comes Crescit amor nummi quantùm ipsa pecunia creseit Naturall desires are finite as thirst is satisfied with drinke and hunger with meate But vnnatuall desires bee infinite as it fares with the body in burning Feuers Quò plus sunt potae plus sitiuntur aquae So it is in the couetous heart Vt cùm posideat plurimae plura petaet Grace can neuer fill the purse nor wealth the heart This vice is in all men iniquitie but in a Magistrate Blasphemie the roote of all euill in euery man the rot of all goodnesse in a great Man It leaues them like those Idoles in the Psalme neither eyes to see nor eares to heare but onely hands to handle Such men will transgresse for handfulls of barley and morsells of bread and a very dramme of profite put into the Scole of Iustice turnes it to the wrong side There is not among all the charmes of Hell a more damnable spell to inchant a Magistrate then the loue of Money This turnes Iudgement into Wormewood or at least into vineger for if Iniustice doe not make it bitter as Wormewood yet shifts and delayes will make it sowre as vineger O how sordid and execrable should bribes bee to them and stinke worse in their nostrils then Vespasians tribute of vrine Let them not onely binde their owne hands and the hands of their seruants that may take but euen binde the hands of them that would offer Hee that vseth Integritie doeth the former but hee that constantly professeth Integritie doth the latter It is not enough to auoyde the fault but euen the suspition It is some discredit to the Iudge when a Clyent with his bribe comes to bee denyed for if his vsuall carriage had giuen him no hope of speeding hee would not offer A Seruant that is a fauourite or inward giues suspition of corruption and is commonly thought but a by-way some posterne or back-dore for a gift to come in when the broad