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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

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

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

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

peremptory couclusion Vel poenitendum vel pereundum Except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish Such venge●nce is no way to bee auoyded but by repentance But here the Iewes might flatter themselues If wee be greater sinners then they how comes it to passe that wee speed better then they To this silent obiection Christ makes an Apologicall answere verse 6. You are not spared because you are more righteous but because God to you is more gracious You deserue such or sorer Iudgements and the reason of this impunitie is not to bee looked for in your innocence but in the Lordes patience not because you are not worse to him but because hee is better to you who offers you space and grace to amend if at least at last you will bring foorth the fruites of Repentance There be some termes in the Text as that the Vineyard is the Church euery Christian a Fig-tree God the Owner euery Pastor a Dresser wherein your vnderstandings may well preuent my discour●e these known and familiar things I take as granted of all hands It is a Parable therefore not to bee forced euery way nor made to warrant a conclusion which the Author neuer meant This were when it offers vs the company a myle to compell it to goe with vs twaine or to make Christes Messenger speake our errand Such is the trade of Rome what their owne policie hath made necessarie they will teach God to make good this is to picke darknesse out of the Su●●e No Verificatur in sensu suo like a good creature it does onely that it was made for A Parable is not like a Looking-glasse to represent all formes and faces but a well drawne Picture to remonstrate that person whereof it is a counterfeit It is like a knife with the haft it cutts not with the backe it cuts not it cuts with the edge A Candle is made to light vs not to heate vs a Stoue is made to heate vs not to ●ight vs if this Parable like the Sunne may giue both light and heate the more profitable the more acceptable Then sayd hee to the Dresser c. That part of it to which I limit my present Discourse deliuers it selfe to vs in these foure passages A Consultation Then sayd hee to the Dress●r of his Vineyard A Complaint Behold these three yeeres I come seeking fruit on this Fig-tree and find none A Sentence Cut it downe A Reason Why cumbers it the ground The Consultation Then said be vnto c. Dixit non percussit hee spake hee stroke not hee might haue spared words and begunne with wounds The Tree had rather deserued the Axe and Fire then a Consultation of recouery How easily would man haue reiected his hopelesse brother as when a piece of clay will not worke to his minde the Potter throwes it away or wee cast foule ragges to the dung-hill little thinking that they may become white paper But with God Verba antecedunt verbera hee will bee heard before hee bee felt Our first Parents when they had sinned Vocem andiuerunt Heard the voyce of God Hee reasoned with them before he condemned them If the fathers word can correct the child hee will let the rod alone Wicked men vse the sudden Arguments of steele and yron as Ioab discoursed with Amasa in the fift ribbe they speake Daggers poynts So Zedekiah disputed with the Prophet a word and a blow yea a blow without a word he strucke him first and spoke to him afterwards God deales otherwise Behold I stand at the doore and knocke hee knockes at the doore does not presently breake it open Hee giues vs warning of his Iudgements that gaue him no warning of our sinnes Why doeth hee thus That wee might see our miserable estate and fall to timely deprecation that so punishing our selues wee might saue him a labour Dixit non destinauit as if the Lord would double and repeat his thoughts before hee decreed it to irreuocable ruine A diuine president of moderation If he that cannot transgresse in his wrath nor exceed in his Iustice will yet Consulere amicum aduise with his friend how ought fraile man to suspend his furious purposes to m●ture deliberation It is too common with vs to attempt dangerous and desperate actions without further counsell then our owne greene thoughts So Anger is made a Solicitor Passion a Iudge and Rashnesse an Executioner The wise man first considers then speakes or does the mad man first speakes or does and then considers Which driues him on necessitie to pl●y the after-game with shame and sor●ow to recouer his former estate or giue it lost for euer O holy deliberation whither art thou fled Dauids H●rpe did cast the euill spirit out this would keepe him from euer comming in It is a Porter at the Gate of Gods spirituall Temple Man that would be as sure to keepe out his enemies as Dauid would haue bin ready to let in his friends How many desperate precipices of sin would be preuented were this Rule remembred Consule Cultorem For matter of estate we are counselled by the Lawyer for health of body aduised by the Physician we trust the Pilot to steere our course by Sea the Suruey or to mete out our Land but for the soule let it be as barren as this Fig-tree we take no counsell of the Gardiner Doe worldlings consult the Preacher concerning their vsurious trade before they vndertake it Doe Gallants aduise with him before they meet in Aceldama the field of blood O that they would admit an answere from such a friend before they giue an answere to such an enemy Dixit Vinitori Such is the honour God do●h his Ministers to acquaint them with his owne purposes Surely the Lord will do nothing but he first reuealeth it to his seruants the Prophets Nothing which may conduce to the office of their Ministery and the good of his Church To you it is giuen to know the ●ysteries of the kingdome of Heauen To you not to the world they haue no such reuelation It is giuen it 's none of your inheritance you were not borne to it To knowe Mysteries Sapere alta not common things Of the kingdome not secular such mysteries are for the knowledge of Statizing Iesuites but of heauen Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I mean to do The matter concerned Sodome not Abraham yet was it reuealed to Abraham not to Sodome But doth God need any mans counsell Who hath at any time beene his Counseller Will the Potter take aduice of his pots No when Christ asked Philip where supply of bread might bee had for the multitude This be● said to prooue him for he himselfe knew what he would doe His questions are not his but our satisfactions Thus doth hee credit his owne Ordinance teaching the world how to esteeme of them whom himselfe so singularly honors How poore a place soeuer they finde in mens thoughts the