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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02367	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. ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 125; ESTC S100425	109,673	188

is heere sayd the Elder shall scrue the Younger The priuiledge of Primogeniture belonged to Esau yet both that and the Blessing went to Iacob If among vs the eldest Sonne sell all his Lands to a younger Brother many are ready to blesse his Starres and to say Hee is borne to better Fortunes But this Presiedent will besot that speach diuers things are heere figured 1. Literally heere is intended that the Idumeans the seed of Es●u should be subiect to the Israelites the posteritie of Iacob So wee read 2 Sam 8. that they were subdued to Israel by Dauid All thoy of Edom became Dauids seruants and so continued to the raigne of Iotham This gaue the Iewes not onely a superioritie in temporall Dominions but in spirituall Blessings the Grace and Mercy of God for they were the visible Church and Edom was cut off 2. Mystically this signifies the carnall Iewes subdued to the Christians though the other were the elder people Therefore it is obseruable that in the Genealogie of Christ Math. 1. many of the first borne were left out Luke 3. Seth is put in for the sonne of Adam yet his eldest sonne was Cain So Math. 1. 2. Abraham begate Isaac yet his eldest sonne was Ishmael Isaac begate Iacob yet heere his first borne was Esau. Iacob begate Iudah yet his first borne was Reuben And Dauid begate Salomon in Mathewes Genealogie Nathan in Lukes yet both younger brethren by Bethsheba Exod. 4. Israel is called Gods first borne and his chosen people his appropreation Populus Iudaeus adumbratus fuit in his primogenitis The Iewes were figured in these first borne and wee the Gentiles that were the younger Brothers haue got away the Birthright Rom 11. They are cast off wee grafted in so that now the Elder se●●eth the younger Which teacheth vs to looke well to our Charter in Christ for it is not enough to bee borne of beleeuing Parents but wee must also be beleeuers Iob may sacrifice for not expiate his sonnes sinnes It is sinfull for men on earth to depriue the first borne but God may and doth it Gen. 48. Israel stre●ched out his right hand and laid it vpon Ephraims head who was the younger and his left hand on Manass●hs head guiding his handes wi●tingly though M●n●sseh was the first borne And ver 18 When Ioseph sayd to him Not so my Father Iacob answered I know it my Sonne I know it Thus Generation may be cut off Regeneration neuer A man may be lost though borne in the Fayth vnlesse he be borne againe to the Fayth Neither is it enough for Ishmael to plead himselfe the Sonne of Abraham vnlesse he can also plead himselfe the Sonne of God and an heire of Abrahams fayth 2. Commende me here to all Genethliackes casters of Natiuities Star-worshipers by this token that they are all Impostors and heere prooued Fooles Heere be Twinnes conceaued togeather borne togeather yet of as different natures and qualities as if a vast locall distance had sundred their Births or as if the originary blood of enemies had run in their Veines It is S. Augustines Preclusion of all Star-predictions out of this place And since I am falne vpon these Figure-casters I will be bold to cast the Destinie of their Profession and honestly lay open their Iuggling in sixe Arguments 1. The falshood of their Ephimerides The Prognosticators as if they were Midwiues to the Celestiall bodyes plead a deepe insight into their secrets or as if like Physitians they had cast the Vrine of the Clouds and knew where the fitte held them that it could neither raine nor hayle till some Starre had first made them acquainted with it Demonstration hath prooued these so false and ridiculous that they may rather Commouere nauseam quàm bilum and risum more then both Perhaps when some appoynt Raine on such a day some Frost others Snow a fourth Winde a last calme and faire weather some of these may hit some of these must hit But lightly hee that against his knowledge told true to day lyes to morrow and hee that lyed yesterday may happen right next day as a blinde Archer may kill a Crow For this cause I thinke some were called Erring or Wandring Starres not so much that they were vncertaine in their owne seates and motions as because they caused to erre their Clients and gaping Inquisitors And so they are called Erring in the same phrase and sense as Death is called Pale not that it is Pale it selfe but because it makes those Pale it seasseth on And Winter durtie not formaliter but secundum effectum because it maketh the Earth durty So that rather their owne speculations by the Starres then the Starres are erring both Decepto sensu cum iudicio et corruptis organis Therefore some of the subtler haue deliuered their opinions in such spurious enigmaticall dilogicall termes as the Diuell gaue his Oracles that since Heauen will not follow their Instructions their Constructions shall follow Heauen And because the Weather hath not fallen out as they haue before tolde they will now tell as the weather falles out So that reading their Bookes you would thinke as the Beggars haue their Canting they had got a new Language out of the Elements which the poore Earth neuer did or shall vnderstand And it is thought that Canting is the better Language because it is not so ambitious as to meddle with the Starres Whereof the Prognosticators head comes as short as his tongue doth of the Beggars eloquence 2. The state of Fortune-tellers and Prophecie-vsurpers which is not onely poore and beggarly as if the enuious Earth refused to relieue those that could fetch their liuing out of the Starres but also ridiculous Nil habet infaelix paupertas durius in se Quàm quòd rìdiculos homines facit This is not all but they are vtterly ignorant of their owne destinies Now Quisibi nescius cui praescius Hee that is a Foole for himselfe how should hee be wise for others Thracias the South sayer in the nine yeares drought of Egipt came to Busiris the Tyrant Monstratque piari Hospitis effuso sanguine posse Iouem and told him that Iupiters wrath might be appeased by sacrificing the Blood of a Stranger The Tyrant asked him What Country-man he was of Egipt or an aliant Hee told him a Stranger Illi Busiris fies Iouis hostia primus Inquit et Aegipto tu dabis hospes aquam Thou quoth the Tyrant art that lucky guest Whose Blood shall wet our soyle and giue vs rest It is reported that Biron that French Martiall came to an Astrologer to know the future successe of his Plots which because hee gaue disastrous the angry Duke begun to his mischieuous intendments in the Fate-tellers blood Can they read other mens Fates in the Starres and not the●s owne Therefore one wittily wrote on such a Booke after throwing it into the fire Thy Authour foretels much alas weake frend That hee