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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

himselfe though due to himselfe Giue it then to his poore Ministers to his poore members heere I know not how happily I am falne into that I would neuer be out of Charitie Most men now-a-dayes as it is in the Prouerbe are better at the Rake then at the Pitch-forke readier to pull in then giue out But if the Lord hath sowne plentifull Seed hee expects plentifull Fruites an answerable measure heapen and shaken and thrust togeather and running ouer If God hath made the Bushell great make not you the Pecke small Turne not the bountie of Heauen to the scarcity of Earth Wee loue the retentiue well but our expulsiue is growne weake But as God hath made you Diuit●● in arca so beseech him to make you Diuites in conscientia Accept not onely the distributiue vertue from Heauen but affect the communicatiue vertue on Earth As in a state politicke the lieger Ambassadours that are sent abroad to lie in forraine Kingdomes secureth our peaceable state at home So that wee dispearse abroad makes safe the rest at home The Prayers of the Poore by vs relieued shall preuaile with God for Mercie vpon vs. The happy solace of a well pleased Conscience shall reioyce vs and the neuer fayling Promises of God shall satisfie vs. Wee heare many Rich men complaine of losses by Sea by Debters by vniust Seruants wee neuer heard any man complaine of want that came by Charitie No man is the poorer for that hee giues to the Poore Let him summe vp his Bookes and hee shall find himselfe the richer As God therefore hath layde vp for you In terra morientium in this World so lay vp for your-selues Interra viuentium in the World to come As you are rich in the Kinges Bookes be rich in Gods Booke If it were possible all the World should miscarry your Treasure in Heauen is in a sure Coffer no Thiefe Rust Moth Fire shall consume that You shall find God the best Creditor hee will pay great Vsurie not ten in a hundred but a hundred a thousand for ten 2. Their Giftes were not slight and triuiall leane meager staruelings but Opimat optima euery one the best in their kinds Gold is the best of Metals Frankin cense of aromaticall Odours Myrrhe of medicinall Vnguents Match these Wise-men O yee miserable times of ours Rarò reddentem rarissimè optima reddentem profertis You seldome bring foorth a man that will giue but almost neuer one that will offer the best Gifts Our lame Sonne must be Gods Clerke our starued Lambe our poorest Fleece our thinnest Sheafe must fall for Gods Tenth If wee giue him the Shales the Huskes the Sheards the Shreds of our Wealth wee iudge him beholding to vs. God heares the Heauens and the Heauens heare the Earth and the Earth heares the Corne Wine Oyle and they heare vs. Our valleys stand thicke with Corne our Trees grone with the burden of Fruites our pastures abound with Cattell we returne God either nothing or the worst we can picke out Take heed least God cursè our Blessings and whiles our Barnes and Garners be Fatte he withall send leannesse into our Soules Neuer thinke ye miserable worldings without openning your Treasures and Presenting the Lord with liberall giftes euer with these Magi to see the face of the Lord Iesus Goe home now and make thy selfe merry with thy wealth whiles Christ stands mourning in the streets applaud thy Wardrobe whiles he goes Naked saturate thy selfe with thy Fatte morsells whiles he begges vnrelieued for the Crummes beake thy Pamperd limbes at the Fire whiles hee shakes through Cold thy miseries is to come thou shalt not behold thy Sauiour in his glory Generally their example hath taught vs somewhat to be Charitable to be Ritch in Charytie More specially they shall intruct vs to particular Gifts Some haue alluded these three Gold Myrrhe and Frankincense to the three Theologicall vertues Fayth Hope and Charitie Auro virtus perhibetur Amantis In Myrrha bona Spes Thure beata Fides By Incense they vnderstand Fayth because as that is to be offered so this is to be reposed in God alone By Myrrh Hope that though death lay the body in the Cold earth and send it to Putrefaction yet Hope shall as it were embalme it with Myrrh and giue it expectance of a better Resurrection By Gold Loue and Charitie the vse of it being such as it can procure them to whom we giue it necessary thinges to the sustentation of their liues Et quid non venditur auro Others haue resolued it thus Pro Myrrha Lachrymas Auro cor porrige purum Pro Thure ex humili pectore funde precet Pure Heart thy Gold thy Myrrhe be Penitence And deuout Prayer be thy Frankincense In a word 1. Offer vp to God thy Frankincense Supplication and Thanksgiuing Psal. 141. Let thy Prayer be set foorth before him as Incense and the lifting vp of thy Hands as an Euening Sacrifice Put this into Christs Censor and it will make a sweete smoake in Gods Nosthrils Whoso offereth mee Prayse glorifieth mee It shall perfume thy Soule qualifie the stench of thy iniquities and vindicate thy Heart from the suffocating Plague of sinne Say then Psal 54. I will freely sacrifice vnto thee I will prayse thy Name O Lord for it is good Freely for this must be Frankincense 2. Next present to him thy Myrrhe a chast and mortified Li●e Let thine Eyes like the 〈◊〉 of the C●urch Cant. 5. 5. droppe downe sweete-smelling Myrrhe Let them gush foorth with pen●tent Teares and thy Soule powre out flouds of sorrow for thy offences Wee haue sinned we haue sinned O let the Lord behold our Oblation of Myrrhe accept our Repentance 3. Lastly thou must giue thy Gold also a pure Heart tryed in the Furnace of Affliction and sublim'd from all corruption And because God onely knowes the Heart and the World must iudge by thy Fruites giue thy spirituall Gold to Christ and thy temporall Gold to his poore members Here take with thee three Cautions 1. That all these Gifts be deriued from an honest Heart It is said of these Magi They opened their Treasurs and presented vnto him Gifts Mans Heart is his Treasurie thou must open that when thou presentest any Gift to the Lord. He that comes with an open Hand and a shut Heart shall be answerd of God as Belshazzar was of Daniel Keepe thy Rewards to thy selfe and giue thy Giftes to another 2. That thy Gifts obserue the true latitude of Deuotion which endeuours to extend it selfe to the glory of God the good of thy Brother and the saluation of thy owne Soule And to all these three may these three Gifts of the Wise-men be preferred The Incense of Prayer respects God the Gold of Charitie respects our Neighbour and the Myrrhe of Mortification respects our selues 3. That you offer not onely one but all these It hath been question'd Whether these Magi did offer Singuli singula or

grain after graine take heed lest thou run not all to chaffe There is a Faith of Saints Gal. 2. Now liue not I but Christ liueth in mee and the life that I liue I liue by the Faith of the Sonne of God And there is a faith of Deuils Iam. 2. Thou beleeuest thou doest well the Deuils beleeue and tremble There is a faith which cannot perish Ioh. 3. Whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall not perish And there is a faith that in the time of temptation fals away Luk. 8. The rockie ground receiues the Word and for a while beleeueth but in the time of temptation fall away There is a faith which the world ouercommeth such was the faith of Demas And there is a faith that ouercommeth the world 1. Ioh. 5 This is the victorie whereby wee ouercome the world euen our faith There is a dead idle and infructuous faith Iam. 2. 14. And there is a liuely actiue working faith Gal. 5. Faith worketh by loue Bee sure then that thy faith will endure the toucheuen the fiery tryall 2 Doe not loose such a Legacie as Christ hath bequeathed for want of faith Glorious is the inheritance but where is thy Euidence Flatter not thy soule with hope of this possession without the assurance of faith Christ giues his life for his sheepe What is this to thee that art a Wolfe a Swine a Goate God dresseth his Vineyard pruneth it watereth it is prouident ouer it What 's this to thee that art a thorne and no branch of the Vine Looke thou to be weeded vp and throwne out The bloud of Christ runnes fresh but where is thy pipe of faith to deriue it from his side to thy conscience Say it should showre mercy yet if thou wantest faith all would fall besides thee There would be no more fauour for thee then if there was no Sauiour Let then no miseries of earth much lesse pleasures quench thy faith Satan seeing this sparke of fire kindled in thy heart would blow it out with stormes or worke thee to smother it thy selfe with vanities or to rake it vp in the dead embers of cold security but beleeue against sight and sense As Dauid prophesied that hee should be a King Eo plus habet fides meriti quo minus argumenti Faith shall haue so much the more recompence as it had the lesse argument to induce it Hope IS the sweetest friend that euer kept a distressed soule company it beguiles all the tediousnesse of the way all the miseries of our Pilgrimage Iam mala finissem letho sed eredula vitam Spes fouet melius cras foresemper ait Therefore dum spiro spero sayes the Heathen but dum expiro spero sayes the Christian. The one whilest I liue I hope the other when I dye I hope so Iob I will hope in thee though thou killest ●ee It tels the soule such sweet stories of the succeeding ioyes what comforts there bee in heauen what peace what ioy what triumphes mariage-songs and Halleluiahs there are in that Country whether shee is trauelling that shee goes merrily away with her present burden It holds the head whilst it takes and giues invisible drinke to the thirsty conscience It is a liberty to them that are in prison and the sweetest Physicke to the sicke Saint Paul calles it an Anchor Let the windes blow and the stormes beat and the waues swell yet the Anchor stayes the shippe It breakes through all difficulties and makes way for the soule to follow it It teacheth Abraham to expect fruit from a withered stocke and Ioseph in a dungeon to looke for the Sunne and Starres obeysance It counsels a man as Esdras did the woman that hauing lost her sonne would needs dye languishing in the disconsolate fields Goe thy way into the City to thine husband Mourne not wretch for the losse of some worldly and perishing delight sit not downe and die though the fruit of thy wombe bee swallowed into the earth But goe home to the citie the City of mercy to thine husband euen thy husband Iesus Christ let him comfort thee This is the voyce of hope Though misery be present comfort absent though through the dimme and waterish humor of thy heart thou canst spie no deliuerance yet such is the nature of Hope that futura facta dicit It speakes of future things as if they were present Rom. 8. Wee are saued by hope Yet sic liberati vt adhuc speranda sit haereditas postea possidenda Nunc habemius ius adrem nondum inre Wee haue our inheritance in hope which giues vs the right of the substance though not the substance of the right assurance of the possession though not possession of the thing assured This tels vs that Nemo valde dolebit diu no man should grieue much and long God making our misery aut tolerabilem aut breuem eyther sufferable or short These are the comforts of Hope Now that you may not bee deceyued there is as I sayde before of Faith a thing like Hope which is not it There is a bold and presumptuous Hope an ignorant security and vngrounded perswasion the very illusion of the Diuell who when hee cannot preuaile with downe-right euill cozens with the shadowes of goodnesse that how wickedly and wretchedly soeuer a man shall liue though hee sucke the poisonous dugs of lust though hee surres himselfe warme with poore mens hearts though hee forbids his braines as on couenant one sober houre in the yeaae to thinke of heauen though hee thirst for carowses of bloud though he striues to powder a whole Kingdome with the cornes of death and massacre though hee carries halfe a dozen impropriate Churches on his sacrilegious backe though hee out-thunder heauen with blasphemies though hee trample vnder his profane foote the precious bloud of Gods sonne yet still hee hopes to bee saued by the mercy of God But wee will sooner cast pearles to swine and bread to dogges then the comforts of Sion to such Wee say not Reioyce tremble but tremble without reioycing Wee sing not to them with the Lord is mercy that hee might bee feared but with the Lord is iudgement and vengeance with him is plague and pestilence storme and tempest horrour and anguish indignation and wrath that hee may bee feared Against this Hope wee shut vp the bosome of consolation and the promise of safety by the merites of Christ and so farre as wee are charged the verie gates of euerlasting life There is an Hope sober faithfull well grounded well guarded well assured This is like a house built on a rocke The rocke is Gods promised mercy the building Hope in Christ it is as it were moted or intrenched about with his bloud bulwarked and rampirde with the Sacraments assured by the sweet testimonie of Gods Spirit to the Conscience knowne by the Charity of the Inhabitants for it keeps bread for the hungrie clothes for the naked entertainment for