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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

house defends vs God defends his house our house comprehends vs God comprehends his house Wee are onely within our houses and they are without vs God is so within his house that hee is also without it elsewhere euery where yea his house is within him When we are abroad we cannot keepe our houses yea when wee are in them asleepe they serue to keepe vs. God can neuer be absent from his nor doth the keeper of this Temple euer sleepe Now euery materiall Temple wherein the Saints are assembled the truth of the Gospell is preached and professed the Holy Sacraments duely administred and the Lords Name is inuocated and worshipped is the Temple of God Why is it called His Temple but for the testification of his presence When Cain stood excommunicated for murdering his brother and might not come to the place appointed for Gods seruice he is said to be cast out from the presence of the Lord. Some haue interpreted the like of Ionahs flying from his presence that he fled from the place where the Prophets vsed to stand ready to be sent of God Nadab and Abihu dyed before the Lord that is before the Altar of the Arke or Altar in the Tabernacle or Temple was said to be done coram D●mino And yet too many come to the Temple with so little reuerence as if they thought God were not at home or did not dwell in his owne house But the Lord is present in his Temple in vaine shall wee hope to finde him elsewhere if we do not seek him here I will bee in the midst of you gathered together in my Name not any where not euery where but here Indeed no place excludes him but this place is sure of him hee fills all places with his presence hee fills this with his gracious presence Heere hee both heares vs and is heard of vs Audit orantes docet audientes hee heares our prayers and teacheth vs our lessons No place sends vp faithfull prayers in vaine no place hath such a promise of hearing as the Temple It is the Lords Court of Audience his Highnesse Court of Requests There humble soules open their grieuances from thence they returne loaden with graces Why are many so voyd of goodnesse but because they are negligent of the publike deuotions They seek not the Lord where hee may bee found therefore deserue to misse him where they pretend to seek him Why should they thinke to finde God in their Closets while they care not to seeke him in his Temples When wee need the helpe of our friend do we tarry till we meet him by chance or till hee come to vs or shall wee not rather go home to his house Peter and Iohn went vp into the Temple at the houre of Prayer they thought it no sufficient to pray in their priuate chambers but ioyne themselues with the Congregation as a Nauy Royall to transport their holy Merchandise to heauen Lift vp your hands in the Sanctuary and blesse the Lord. Pure hands are accepted in euery place but especially in the Sanctuary What followes The Lord that made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion Hee sayes not the Lord that made heauen blesse thee vpon earth nor the Lord that made earth blesse thee out of heauen but the Lord that made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion Blessings come originally from heauen mediately through Sion In the Temple let vs seeke in the Temple wee shall finde those precious treasures and comforts of Iesus Christ. This Temple is not without some enemies Besides those prophane Polititians that thinke with one Eustathius that there is no vse of Temples or those Massilians who as Damascen reports did adde to other Heresies Templorum contemptum or those Pseudo-Apostoli that laughed at a Temple full of Suppliants as a house full of fooles Or those that bee of Ieroboams mind who to settle himselfe in the kingdome of Israel diuerts the people from Gods house at Ierusalem In stead of that snowy glittering Temple they shall haue two golden representations Sion is too farre off these shall bee neere home that is a tedious way of deuotion these both compendious and plausible As Iosephus brings him in perswading them My good people and friends you cannot but know that no place is without God and that no place doth containe God wheresoeuer we pray he can heare vs wheresoeuer we worship hee can see vs therefore the Temple is superfluous the iourney needlesse God is better able to come to you then you are to goe to him Beside these the Temple of God hath two kinds of foes 1. The Anabaptists tell vs that the old superstition hath made those houses fitter for Stables then for Churches that they ought no more to be called Templa Dei but Templa Idolorum as they pretend the Passeouer was called in those corrupt times not Pascha Dei but Pascha Iudaeorum By the same reason they would haue remoued all Princes because some haue abused their gouernments But we say though euill men abuse good things yet if a kingdome were not a lawfull State Dauid and Iosias would neuer haue been Kings for good men doe not vse euill things The Temple in Christs time was become a denne of theeues yet euen then and there did hee send vp deuout and holy Prayers It is a grosse ignorance that cannot distinguish betwixt a fault that proceeds ex natura facti and that which proceeds ex abusu boni the former is malum simpliciter the other is but malum per accidens No man pulles downe his house because vncleanesse hath been committed in one of the chambers Let offenders be remoued from the Temple not the Temple demolished because of offences The Kingdome of God shall be taken from you saith Christ not quite taken away but onely taken from the Iewes When GOD threatned the like to Saul he did not meane to haue no more Kings or to reduce it to the former state of Iudges no onely the kingdome shall lose Saul but Israel shall not lose the kingdome It is a Maxime in nature Things dedicated to God are not to bee transferred to the vses of men a principle in Philosophy Quae rectè data sunt eripi non licet and a prouerbe among our children To giue a thing and take a thing is fit for the Deuils darling 2. The Sacrilegious to whom God is beholding if they let his Temple stand but for the maintenance of it they will bee so bold with him as either to share halfe or leaue him none There bee many that pray in the Temple who yet also prey on the Temple as if a thiefe should doe homage to that house in the day which hee meanes to robbe in the night But alas why should I touch that sore which is all dead flesh or speake against Sacriledge In orbe sacrilego among them that delight in it Where Lawyers are feeed

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 post●rne or back-dore for a gift to come in when the broad fore-gates are shut against it This makes many aspire to Offices and great places not to doe good but to get goods as some loue to bee stirring the fire if it bee but to warme their owne fingers Whatsoeuer affaires passe through their hands they crooke them all to their owne endes and care not what becomes of the publike good so they may aduance their owne priuate and would ●et their neighbours house on fire and it were but to rost their owne egges Let them banish Couetousnesse with as great a hatred as Amnon did Thamar first thrust it out of their hearts then shut and locke the dore after it for the couetous heart is none of them that God chuseth Next let vs see what kinde of hearts of God will chuse and they be furnished with these vertues fit for a Magistrate 1. There is Cor sapiens a wise heart and this was Salomons suite An vnderstanding heart Hee saw hee had power enough but not wisedome enough and that Royaltie without wisedome was no better then an eminent dishonour a very Calfe made of golden Eare-rings There is no Trade of life but a peculiar wisedome belongs to it without which all is tedious and vnprofitable how much more to the highest and busiest vocation the gouernment of men An ignorant ruler is like a blind Pilot who shall saue the vessell from ruine 2. Cor patiens a meeke heart what is it to discerne the cause and not to bee patient of the proceedings The first Gouernour that God set ouer his Israel was Moses a man of the meekest spirit vpon earth How is hee fit to gouerne others that hath not learn'd to gouerne himselfe He that cannot rule a Boat on the riuer is not to bee trusted with steering a Vessell on the Ocean Nor yet must this patience degenerate into cowardlinesse Moses that was so meeke in his owne cause in Gods cause was as resolute So there is also 3. Cor magnanimum a heart of fortitude and courage The rulers and squares that regulate others are not made of lead or soft wood such as will bend or bow The principall Columnes of a house had need be heart of Oke A timorous and flexible Magistrate is not fit for these corrupt times If either threatnings can terrifie him or fauour melt him or perswasions swerue him from Iustice hee shall not want temptations The Braine that must dispell the fumes ascending from a corrupt liuer stomach or spleene had need bee of a strong constitution The couragious spirit that resolues to doe the will of heauen what malignant powers soeuer would crosse it on earth is the heart God chuseth 4. Lastly there is Cor. honestum an honest heart Without this courage will prooue but legall Iniustice policie but meere subtiltie and abilitie but the Deuills Anuile to forge mischiefes Priuate men haue many curbes but men in authoritie if they feare not God haue nothing else to feare If hee bee a simple Dastard hee feares all men if a head-strong commander he feares no man like that vniust Iudge that feared neither God nor Man This is the ground of all fidelitie to King and Countrey Religion Such was Constantines Maxime Hee cannot bee faithfull to mee that is vnfaithfull to God As this honourable place of the Kings Lieutenāt-ship hath a Sword-bearer so the Magistrate himselfe is the Lords Sword-bearer saith Saint Paul And as hee may neuer drawe this Sword in his priuate quarrell so hee must not let if bee sheathed when Gods cause calls for it It is lenitie and conniuence that hath inuited contempt to great places Did Iustice carrie a seuerer hand they durst not traduce their Rulers in Songs and Saty●s the burden whereof will bee their owne shame Magistrates are our ciuill Fathers and what deserue they but the curse of Cham that lay open the nakednesse of their Fathers When Alexander had conquered Darius and casually found his slaine bodie lying naked hee threw his owne coat ouer him saying I will couer the destinie of a King It is God alone that casteth contempt vpon Princes which that hee may not doe let them preserue Cor mundum a cleane heart not conscious of ill demerits Such a one sits on the Iudgement-Seat as one that neuer forgets that hee must appeare before the Iudgement-Seate of Christ. So hee executeth Iustice as neuer losing the sense of Mercy so hee sheweth Mercie as not offering violence to Iustice Hee can at once punish the offence and pitie the offender Hee remembers his oath and feares to violate it to an enemie hee is not cruell to a friend hee will not bee partiall And if euer hee haue but once cut the skirt of Iustice as Dauid the lappe of Sauls garment his Heart smites him for it Hee minds no other clocke on the Bench but that of his owne Conscience Hee will not offend the Iust nor affoord a good looke to varlets nor yet doth hee so d●sregard their persons as to wrong their causes Hee will maintaine Pietie but not neglect Equitie In Court hee lookes not before him on the person nor about him on the beholders nor behind him for bribes nay hee will not touch them in his Cloffer or Chamber lest the timber and stones in the wall should-witnesse against him So hee helpes the Church that the Common-wealth bee no loser so hee lookes to the Common-wealth that the Church may not bee wronged The lewd feare him the good praise him the poore blesse him hee hath been a Father to Orphans a Husband to distressed Widowes Many prayers are layde vp for him in Heauen and when hee dies they with the assist●nce of Angels shall beare him vp to blessednesse Lastly let vs see why God will chuse men by the heart I denie not but wisedome and courage moderation and ●atience are all requisite concur●ences but the Heart is the Primum Mobile that sets all the wheeles a going and improoues them to the right end When God begins to make a man good he begins at the heart as Nature in forming so God in reforming begins there As the eye is the first that begins to die and the last that begins to liue so the heart is the first that liues and the last that dies It is said of the Spider that in the morning before shee seekes out for her prey shee mends her broken webbe and in doing that she alwayes begins in the midst Before wee pursue the profits and baits of this world let vs first amend our life and when wee vndertake this let vs bee sure to begin at the heart The Heart is the Fort or Citadell in this little I le of man let vs fortifie that or all

and Vnrighteousnesse Light and Darknesse Christ and Beliall the Beleeuer and the Infidel these can haue no societie communion no concord no coniunction and What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols I need not by Art diuide these words for they are diuided by nature Now as Quae Deus coniunxit nemo separet Those things that God hath ioyned together let no man put asunder so Quae Deus separauit nemo coniungat Those things that God hath put asunder let no man ioyne together The scope of the Text and the matter of my Discourse is to separate Idols from the Temple of God the holy Ghost hath diuided them to my hands they cannot agree in his sentence let them neuer agree in our practise cursed is hee that goes about to compound this controuersie The Temple is holy Idols prophane it is not lawfull to mixe Sacra profanis The Temple is for God Idols for the Deuill God and the Deuill admit no reconciliation Therefore as two hostile nations after some treatie of peace neither liking the proposed conditions breake off in a rage In hoc vterque consentimus quòd consentire nolumus in this we both consent that we wil not consent at all so be it heere agreed that no agreement can bee made In composing differences betwixt man and man betwixt family and family betwixt kingdome and kingdome Beati Pacifici Blessed are the Peace-makers But in reconciling Christ and Belial the Temple of God and Idols Maledicti pacifici Cursed are the peace-makers Heere Bella geri place at magnos habitura triumphos God himselfe in Paradise did first put the quarrell his Apostle hath heere giuen the Alarme and hee deserues a malediction that sounds a retreat But as no battell can be well fought without order and martial array so no discourse can bee made profitable without some method The Temple therefore wee will suppose to be Gods Castle and Idolatry the Inuasion of it This Castle is but one Idols are many The Champions that God hath set to defend his Castle are especially or principally Princes and Pastors the Magistracy and the Ministery the aduersary forces that fight against it bee the Deuils mercenary Souldiers The Munition on the one side is the Diuine Scripture the sacred Word of God the Engines Ordnance and Instruments of assault on the other side are Idols Traditions and those carnall inuentions wherewith the corrupt heart of man seekes to batter it This Siege is continuall this feud implacable the difference irreconcileable Yet at last the warre shall end with the ruine of those enemies in the triumph of the righteous and to the euerlasting glory of God Now though this warre bee euery way spirituall it is diuers wayes considerable There is a materiall and there is a mysticall Temple there are externall and internall Idols there bee ordinary and extraordinary Souldiers Euery Christian as hee is a Temple of God so not without the assault of Idols there is a ciuill warre a Rebellion within him wherewith hee is continually exercised In this militant estate of the Church none are free onely he that giues full allowance to his owne corruptions is not a Temple of God but a Synagogue of Satan a sinke of vncleannesse rather then a Sanctuary of holinesse Thus from one generall arise many particulars and you will say Behold a company as Leah said of her sonne Gad a Troupe commeth Yet all these branches haue but one root they are but like the wheeles of a Clocke taken a little in sunder to view then to bee put together againe Let not their number discourage your attention When a wealthy fouourite of the world sent his seruant to be speake lodging for him he told the Host Here will come to night the Lord of such a Mannor the Land-lord of such a Town the Keeper of such a Forrest the Master of such an Office the Lay-parson of such a Parish a Knight a Iustice of Peace a Gentleman an Vsurer and my Master Alas answeres the Host I haue not lodging for halfe so many Bee content replies the seruant for all these are but one man So if you distrust your memories for roome to entertaine so many obseruations yet be comforted for all haue but this one Summe There is no agreement betwixt the Temple of God and Idols The Temple That which was built by Salomon was iustly called the Wonder of the world a white and glorious Monument set on the hill of Sion inuiting passengers to see it and amazing their eyes when they beheld it It was of white Marble without of Cedar and Gold within all of the best all beautifull precious durable So magnificent was that holy Structure that al nations haue admired it all times celebrated it Beautifull for situation the ioy of the whole earth is Mount Sion While the fauour of heauen was set vpon Ierusalem the ioy of the whole earth was mount Sion It is fit hee that made the world a house for Man should haue a house in this world made for himselfe neither could it be too costly ●eeing all the materialls that went to it were his owne Euery rotten Cottage is too good for Satan no Fabricke could be too sumptuous for God While his people dwelt in Tents Himselfe was content to dwell in a Tabernacle in the flitting condition of Israel hee would haue his owne house a moueable that they might neuer remoue without him But when their residence was setled in the promised Land he would haue his Tabernacle turned into a Temple that they dwelling where he appoynted them Hee might also dwell among them The former was for motion the latter for rest the one for progresse the other his standing house All this while God had but one House at once first the Tabernacle then that gaue place to the Temple and Salomons Temple being defaced was supplied by Zorobabels Now he hath many houses euen so many as there bee nations as there bee congregations as there bee persons professing Christ. Wee haue houses of our owne why should not God haue his A Prince hath more houses then one why should the King of Heauen be abridg'd A King in his owne person can dwell but in one house at once let God haue neuer so many hee can at once fill them all Hee hath a house of flesh so euery Beleeuer is his Temple a house of stone so this materiall one is his Temple a house neither of flesh nor stone but immateriall immortall in the heauens And as Christ sayes that in his Fathers House there are many Mansions so in his Fathers militant Church there are many houses It were vaine to aske what God should doe with a house when wee consider what we do with our owne what but dwell in it But how God doth dwell in it seemes to be a question seeing the Apostle saith that hee dwells not in Temples made with hands Indeed he dwels not in them as wee dwell in ours Our

the Israelites of them to none but the cleane There was a third proper only to the Priests and Leuites whither the Laitie might not come thus farre they might bring their offerings but further they might not offer to goe In the Temple it selfe there was one roome into which the Leuites might not enter the Priests might Another whither the Priests might not come but onely the high Priest and euen hee but once yearely Some passages of the Christian Church are common to all euen to the vncleane hypocrites and foule-hearted sinners They haue accesse to Gods holy ordinances and tread in his Courts as the Pharisee came into the congregation and Iudas receiued the Communion Other are secret and reserued wherein the faithfull onely conuerse with God and solace themselues in the sweet fruition of his gracious presence The materiall Temple in three diuisions seemed to be a cleare representation of the Church in three degrees The first signified the externall and visible face of the Church from which no professor of Christ is debarred The second the communion of the inuisible Church vpon earth The last the highest heauen of Gods glorified Saints Neither did those roomes more exceed one another then do these parts of the spirituall house of Christ. What are the most polished corners of the Temple to the spirituall liuing stones of the Church What be pebles to Saphirs or marbles to Diamonds Howsoeuer some are more transported with insensible monuments then with liuing Saints As it was a complaint long since Fulget Ecclesia in parietibus luget in pauperibus Yet Temples are built for men not men for Temples and what is a glorious edifice when the whole world is not worth one soule Dead walls bee of small value to the liuing Temples of the holy Ghost yea the temple of our body to the temple of Christs Body his Church yea the Temple of Gods Church militant on earth to that which is triumphant in heauen What is siluer and gold Cedar and Marble to those diuine graces faith truth pietie holinesse Salomons Temple did last but some 430. yeares the Church is for eternitie The Temple took vp but a little space of ground at most the Hill Sion the Church is vniuersally spread in all parts of the world God hath his chosen Did our intellectuall eyes truely behold the beauty of this Temple wee would with that good Emperor esteeme it better to be a member of the Church then head of the kingdome We would set this one thing against all worldly glories As when Henry 4. that late Great king of France was told of the king of Spaines ample dominions as first he is king of Castile and I quoth Henry am king of France he is king of Nauarre and I am king of France he is king of Portugall and I am king of France he is king of Naples and I am king of France he is king of the Si●ilies and I am king of France hee is king of Noua Hispania the West Indies and I am king of France he thought the kingdome of France equiualent to all these So let thy soule O Christian solace it selfe against all the wants of thy mortall pilgrimage in this that thou art a member of the church Another hath more wit or learning yet I am a Christian another hath more honour and preferment on earth yet I am a Christian another hath more siluer and gold and riches yet I am a Christian another hath large possessions yet I haue an Inheritance in heauen I am a Christian. Dauid thought it not so happy to bee a King in his owne house as to bee a doore-keeper in Gods house Were our hearts throughly sanctified we would vnder-value all honours to this that we are parts of this spirituall Temple the members of Iesus Christ. Idols Euery deuice of man in the seruice of God is a meere Idol Whatsoeuer we inuent out of Gods Schoole or substitute in Gods roome is to vs an Idol Howsoeuer we flatter our selues with reflecting all the honour on God yet hee will reflect the vengeance on vs. Shall a man speake deceitfully for God or tell a lye for his glory Hee is not so penurious of meanes to honour himselfe as to be beholding to vs for a lye The doctrine of vniuersall grace seemes to make much for Gods glory but himselfe sayes it is ●lye for he w●ll haue mercie on whom h● will haue mercy and whom hee will hee hardneth To say that Christ in the wombe wrought many miracles hath a faire shew of honouring him but who can say it is not a lye Sure wee reade no such matter To distribute among the Saints departed seuerall Offices as one to haue the charge of women in child-bed another to bee the Patron of such a Citie or Countrey to omit their protection of beasts one for hogs another for horses seemes to honour God in thus honouring them but it is a lye and a plaine derogation to his vniuersall prouidence yea as absurd as if the flies should take vpon them to giue the charges and offices of this kingdome To say the Saints in heauen know the occurrents of this nether world and the condition of their ancient friends or children below reading them in the Deitie as by the reflection of a glasse this is a fiction that carries a shew of honouring God but it doth indeed dishonor him by making creatures as omniscient as their Maker Besides how absurd is it to say that Iohn in Patmos seeing Christ did see all that Christ saw If I standing on the ground see a man on the top of a high Turret doe I see all that hee seeth If the sight of him that looketh bee to be measured by the sight of him on whom hee looketh it will follow that hee which looketh on a blinde man should see no●hing at all And who seeth not the blindness of this consequēce To say that all the worship done to the Virgin mother redounds to the honour of her Sonne and God is a grosse falshood The Idolatrous Iewes might as well haue pretended the honor of God when they worshipped the Queene of heauen That fanaticall vision of theirs concerning the two ladders that reached vp to heauen while Christ was preparing to iudge the world the one Red at the top whereof Christ sate the other white at the top whereof the Virgin sate and when the Friers could not get vp the red ladder of Christ but euermore tumbled downe backward St. Francis called them vp the white ladder of our Lady and there they were receiued Did this make for the honour of Christ when the red blood of our Sauiour is not so able to bring men to heauen as the white milke of his mother which must needs be the morall or meaning of it Or the obseruation of Barrhadius the Iesuite who made bold to aske Christ why in his ascension to heauen he did not take his mother along with him