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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02054	Heauen and earth reconcil'd A sermon preached at Saint Paules church in Bedford, October. 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland, Archdeacon of Bedford. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 122; ESTC S100418	32,838	52

it cannot but griue vs to be a sauour of death to many and to rise vp condemning witnesses against those that would not beleeue our report yet since God is glorified in both Heauen and Hell and we haue faithfully discharged the duties of our callings and consciences leauing the successe to God though we haue Turned few to Righteousnesse yet we shall shine as Starres for euer and euer PRAEDICATE The Praedicate we worke men to is Righteousnesse Righteousnesse is so faire an obiect that a man would thinke there needes no great sollicitation to it What heart would not be inamored on the beautie of Righteousnesse if we saw it Euen the most vnrighteous men haue been conuinced to approue Righteousnesse Surely Integritie is not loued because it is not seene the Deuill so takes vp our eyes with the flourishes of sinne and gay colours of Lustes that we are blind to the sight of goodnesse whose face if we could behold in that mirrour of clearenesse wherein we were created we would be in loue with nothing else but God and that But as an ill affected Stomacke is best pleased with crudities our poysoned and infected Natures are dotingly taken with corruptions and haue no loue to Righteousnesse No loue sayd I no familiaritie no knowledge no acquaintance that if God should suffer our blinded soules so to goe on to our deathes we should scarce euer dreame of Righteousnesse Therefore he hath giuen vs helpes his word and the vocall Organs to make it sound to vs his Ministers who may turne our hearts to righteousnesse Heere is offred to vs this instruction The end of the Ministry is to bring men to righteousnesse Christ when he had led captiuitie captiue gaue Guifts to men What were they and to what end Paul declares both the Guiftes ver 11. He gaue some to be Apostles some Prophets c. The end ver 12. For the repairing of the Saints and for the edification of the Body of Christ a taske hard enough Ars artiu●● regimen animar●m It is the cunning of all cunninges to gouerne Soules It is no easie worke to make men righteous If they could retaine couetise licentiousnesse vaine-glory in their seruice and withall be Righteous there were some hope but when you tell them that carnall Lust and Righteousnesse are two endes that shall neuer meete that Flesh and blood shall not inherite the kingdome of Heauen When you bid them weepe for and restore their Iniuries Vsuries Sacriledges charme their tongues from Blasphemies their heartes from Vanities you shall almost as good bath a Moore in hope to whiten him Men naturally loue any thing better then Righteousnesse and thinke any burden lighter then Repentance Hence it is that we are not so welcome as the Ministers of Sathan 1. Behold thy Minister mournes to thy soule in the Pulpit and perswades thee by the blood of Christ not without his owne teares to haue mercy on thy soule not to cast away all the hopes and comfortes of a better world to bewaile and beware of sinnes which will make a Hell in thy boosome heere and sinke thee to a worse Hell hereafter Nihil agit he cannot preuaile Let but a Ruffian hold vp his finger thou art gone All Auditors are not Ruffians and so addicted God forbid that our S●r●i should not haue a few names left in her but many are thus and moe of a contrary disposition but a worse the most attend the World Who will shew vs any good The Ministers voyce is not so audible as Profites nor can Diuinitie make so sweete Musicke as the world If to condole this were to helpe it and the discouerie of the disease were no lesse then the remedie I should soone cure it but shall I tell you The generall opinion of most in our Parishes is this if the life doe not belye the minde that a competent measure of righteousnesse is enough for Heauen and Saluation doth not stand on so hard conditions as we teach No bounds or measures of iniquitie are enough but a little righteousnesse serues It is matter of amazement to see how the most liue as if they were neyther in Gods debt nor daunger Men striue who shall sinne most and giue Iesus Christ the deepest wounds they sweare bezzell couet and laugh at him that tels them they sinne there is not so much shame left in their bloodes as to giue testimony of their gultinesse If it were possible they would annihilate their soules and quench all difference twixt themselues and beastes Let vs eate and drynke for we shall dye It is soone said and soone eaten but not so soone digested They aduance the colours of Satan Blasphemies and Lyes in the very face of God as if they sent Challenges to Heauen and dared their Maker to combate For the ministrie of the Word whose intent is to beget in our soules Righteousnesse they make this the end of it to passe the time to keepe Holy-dayes from sleepe and to mooue the heartes of Idiots they visite the Temple of custome as Fooles of example as Apes for necessitie as Beastes for prayse as Hypocrites or for peace as Politicians How few thinke their Minister placed ouer them to turne their heartes to Righteousnesse I haue shewed them the end of the Ministrie we may not forget to apply it to our selues Gods intent in sealing thee this Commission is to worke in mens heartes Righteousnesse Who knowes not that God graunt none forget it I am not worthy Fathers and Brethren to informe your vnderstandings Saltem concedatur refricare memorias onely giue me leaue to rubbe your memories It is easie to propound sinister endes to our best ordinate and most regular workes There are fiue bitter Hearbes to spoyle all the Children of the Prophets Pottage Fiue affections to distaste our ministrie I will not say to make them ineffectuall Fame Flatterie Ease Necessitie Couetousnesse 1. Are there none that catch at popular Applause and rather hunt themselues into Fame then Soules in-Heauen Se pr●dicantes non Christum preaching themselues rather then Iesus Christ Mancipia popularis aurae venalia Creatures bred of the peoples breath whose excellencies consist onely in opinion rare men in their owne iudgementes and the flattered multitudes that speake more desperately against doubted and questionable actions then against knowne and manifest sinnes that inueigh against some to please the rest and euen curry fauour by speaking bitterly of whom he spake truly that sayd They care not to be condemned of the Learned for ignorant so they may be commended of the ignorant for Learned Quid petitur sacris nisi tantum f●ma poetis What gape these for but onely Fame They intend not ●rection of heartes direction of liues correction of vices but they haue a strange kind of pleasure to hold men by the eares as the Fisher the Pike by the gilles and neither takes him nor letts him goe there is in these more affectation of