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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

wounds searched while they are greene then to haue our limbes cut off for being festered Descend wee then into the depth and corners of our owne hearts let vs begin our visitation there mortifying all our rebellious lusts and subduing our affections to the will of our Maker So onely shall wee passe cleare and vncondemned by the great Bishop of our Soules Iesus Christ. I haue done Deo gloria vobis gratia mihi venia Amen THE HOLY CHOICE A SERMON PREACHED in the Chappell by GVILDHALL at the Solemnitie of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of London BY THO ADAMS LONDON Printed by Aug. Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1625. THE HOLY CHOICE ACTES 1.24 And they prayed and said Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen THe businesse of the day is an Election an election into one of the most Noble Offices of the Kingdome the gouernment of this Honourable Citie which let not enuie heare it hath no parallel vnder the Sunne The businesse of my Text is an Election too an election into the highest office in the Church to be an Apostle and Witnesse of Iesus Christ. If you please to spare the paterne in foure circumstances as 1. This office is spiritual yours temporall 2. This place was voyd by Apostasie or decession yours is supplied by succession 3. This election is by Lots yours is by Suffrages 4. This choice was but one of two it may be your number exceeds the rest will sute well enough and the same God that was in the one be also present in the other by the assistance of his holy spirit The argument of the Text is a prayer to God for his direction in their choice yea indeed that hee would chuse a man for them including a strong reason of such a request because he doth know the hearts of all men They begin with prayer this was the vsuall maner in the Church of God So Moses prayed for the choice of his Successor Let the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man ouer the Congregation Christ sent not his Apostles to that holy work without a prayer Sanctifie them through thy truth In the chusing of those seuen Deacons they first prayed and then laid their hands vpon them Thus were Kings Inaugurated with Sacrifice and Prayer It is not fit he that is chosen for God should bee chosen without God But for this Samuel himselfe may be mistaken and chuse seuen wrong before hee hit vpon the right In this I cannot but commend your religious care that businesses of so great a consequence be alwayes sanctified with a blessing Those which in a due proportion must represent God to the world ought to be consecrated to that Maiestie which they resemble by publike deuotions Euery important action requires Prayer much more that which concernes a whole citie When Samuel came to Bethlehem to annoynt Dauid he calls the whole Citie to the Sacrifice Indeed the Family of Iesse was sanctified in a more speciall manner this businesse was most theirs and all Israels in them The feare of God should take full possession of all our hearts that are this day assembled but those with whom God hath more to doe then with the rest should bee more holy then the rest The choice of your Wardens and Masters in your seuerall Companies hath a solemne forme and it is the honour of your greatest Feasts that the first dish is a Sermon Charitie forbid that any should think you admit such a Custome rather for conuenience then deuotion as if Preaching were but a necessary complement to a Solemnitie as Wine and Musicke I am perswaded better things of you but if there should be any such peruerse spirits that like the Gouernor of a people called Aequi when the Romans came to him Iussit c●s ad quercum dicere bade them speak to the Oake for he had other businesse but they replied Et h●c sacrataquercus andiat f●dus a v●bis violatum let this Oake beare witnesse that you haue broke the league which you haue couenanted So when we come to preach to your soules if you should secretly bid vs speake to the walls loe euen the very walls will be witnesses against you at the last day Though Saul be King ouer Samuel yet Samuel must teach Saul how to bee King Wee may instruct though wee may not rule yea wee must instruct them that shall rule Therefore as wee obey your call in comming to speake so doe you obey Gods command in vouchsafing to heare Let vs apply our selues to him with deuotion and then hee will bee graciously present at our Election This Prayer respects two things Quem the person whom they intreat things Quid the matter for which they intreat The Person is described by His Omnipotence Lord. His Omniscience That knowest the hearts of men Omnipotence Lord. Wee acknowledge thy right thou art fit to bee thine owne chuser Lord there bee many on earth called Lords but those are Lords of earth and those Lords are earth those Lords must returne to earth This Lord is Almightie raising out of the dust to the hon●ur of Princes and laying the honour of Princes in the dust Lord of what nay not qualified not Lord of such a Countie Barony Seigniorie nor Lord by vertue of Office and Deputation but in abstracto most absolute His Lordship is vniuersall Lord of heauen the owner of those glorious mansions Lord of earth disposer of all Kingdomes and Principalities Lord of hell to locke vp the old Dragon and his crew in the bottomlesse pit Lord of Death to vnlocke the graues hee keepes the Key that shall let all bodies out of their earthy prisons A potent Lord whither shall we goe to get out of his Dominion To heauen there wee cannot misse him To hell there wee cannot bee without him In ayre earth or sea in light or darknesse wee are sure to finde him Whither then except to Purgatory That Terra incognita is not mentioned in his Lordship the Pope may keepe the key of that himselfe But for the rest hee is too sawcie exalting his vniuersal Lordship and hedging in the whole Christian world for his Diocesse Stretching his arme to heauen in rubricking what Saints he lift to hell in freeing what prisoners hee lift on earth in setting vp or pulling downe what Kings hee list but that some haue cut short his busie fingers To the Lord of all they commend the choyce of his owne seruants Euery mortall Lord hath this power in his owne Family how much more that Lord which makes Lords who is so fit to chuse as he that can chuse the fit Who so fit to chuse as hee that can make those fit whom he doth chuse It is He alone that can giue power and grace to the elected therefore not to be left out in the election How can the Apostle preach or the Magistrate gouerne without

Pole of Aduancement And as the seruant values himselfe higher or lower according as his master is so the master esteemes himselfe greater or lesse according as his master that is as his Money or Estate is His heart is proportionably enlarged with his house his good and his blood riseth together Is not this the great Babylon which I haue built for the honour of my Maiestie But you know hee was turned into a beast that said so Gold and siluer are heauy metalls and sinke downe in the ballance yet by a preposterous inuersion they lift the heart of man vpwards as the plummet of a clocke which while it selfe poyseth downewards lifts vp the striking hammer As Saul vpon his annointing so many a one vpon his aduancing is turned quite into another man God I thanke thee sayes the Pharisee that I am not as other men are nor as this Publican not as other men and for this hee thankes God as if because hee thought better of himselfe God must needs thinke better of him too Now hee must no more take it as hee hath done a new port for a new report He abhorres all men but admires himselfe Yet after these blustring insolencies and windie ostentations all this thing is but a man and that God knowes a very foolish one But the children of grace haue learned anothe● lesson to thinke well of other men and to abhor themselues And indeed if we consider what Master we haue serued what wages deserued we haue iust cause to abhorre our selues What part of vs hath not sinned that it should not merit to be despised Run all ouer this little I le of man find me one mēber of the body or faculty of the soule that can say with Iobs messenger Ego solus aufugi I alone haue escaped What one action can wee iustifie Produce ex tot millibus vnum Where is that Innocencie which desires not to stand onely in the sight of Mercie There is in our worst workes wickednesse in our best weaknesse errour in all What time what place are not witnesses against vs The very Sabbath the day of Rest hath not rested from our euills The very Temple that holy place hath beene defiled with our obliquities Our chambers our beds our boords the ground we tread the ayre wee breath can tell our follies There is no occasion which if it doe not testifie what euill we haue done yet can say what good we should and haue not done If all this do not humble vs looke we vp with Iob heere to the Maiestie which we haue offend●d To spoile the Armes of a common Subiect or to counterfeit his Seale is no such haynous or capitall crime But to deface the Armes of the King to counterfeit his Broad Seale or priuy Signet is no lesse then Treason because the disgrace redounds vpon the person of the King Euery sinne dishonors God offers to sticke ignominy vpon that infinite Maiestie therefore deserues an infinite penaltie Against thee O Lord against thee haue I sinned I thy creature against Thee my Maker heere is a transcendencie which when a man considers hee is worthie to bee abhorred of all men that does not abhorre himselfe Yet when God and our owne selues stand in competition which do we most respect Temptation is on our left hand in a beautifull resemblance to seduce vs. The will the glory the Iudgement of God is on our right hand to direct vs doe we now abhorre our selues Commoditie sets off inquitie wooes vs to be rich though sinners Christ bids vs first s●ek thee kingdome of Heauen and tells vs that other things shall come without seeking they shall bee added vnto vs Doe we now abhorre our selues Such a sinne is pleasing to my lust and concupiscence but it is displeasing to God and my Conscience Doe I now abhorre my selfe That wee loue God farre better then our selues is soone said but to prooue it is not so easily done Hee must Deny himselfe that will bee Christs seruant Many haue denied their Masters many haue denied their Friends many haue denyed their Kinred not a few haue denied their Brothers some haue denied their owne Parents but to denie themselues durus hic sermo this is a hard taske Negare suos sua se to denie their profits to deny their pleasures to denie their lustes to denie their reasons to denie themselues no to doe all this they vtterly denie Yet hee that repents truely abhorres himselfe Non se vt conditum sed se vt perditum not the creature that God made but the creature that himselfe made Repentance loues Animam non malitiam carnem non carnalitatem the Soule not the venime of the soule the flesh not the fl●shlinesse of it So farre as hee hath corrupted himselfe so farre he abhorres hims●lfe and could rather wish non esse not to be at all then malum ●sse to be displeasing to his Maker Thus if wee despise our selues God will honour vs if we abhorre our selues God will accept vs if wee denie our selues God will acknowledge vs if wee hate our selues God will loue vs if wee condemne our selues God will acquite vs if we punish our selues God will spare vs yea thus if we seeme lost to our selues wee shall bee found in the day of Iesus Christ. I repent Repentance hath much acquaintance in the world and few friends it is better knowen then practised and yet not more knowen then trusted My scope now shall not bee the definition of it but a perswasion to it It is euery mans medicine an vniuersall Antidote that makes many a Mithridates venture on poyson They make bolde to sinne as if they were sure to repent But the medicine was made for the wound not the wound for the medicine Wee haue read if not seene the Battell betwixt those two venimous creatures the Toad and the Spider where the greater being ouer-match'd with the poyson of the lesse hath recourse to a certaine hearbe some thinke the Plantane with which shee expells the infection and renewes the fight but at last the hearbe being wasted the Toad bursts and dies Wee sucke in sinne the poyson of that old Serpent and presume to driue it out againe with Repentance but how if this Hearbe of grace bee not found in our Gardens As Traian was marching foorth with his armie a poore woman sollicited him to doe her iustice vpon the murderers of her onely sonne I will doe thee Iustice woman sayes the Emperour when I returne The woman presently replyed But what if my Lord neuer returne How farre soeuer we haue runne out we hope to make all reckonings euen when Repentance comes but what if Repentance neuer comes It is not many yeares more incitations and abundance of meanes that can worke it but Repentance is the faire gift of God One would thinke it a short Lesson yet Israel was fortie yeares a learning it and they not sooner got it but presently forgot