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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

Goodnesse that he is willing to saue vs. Were hee neuer so Great if not Good to vs wee had litle helpe Were hee neuer so Good if not Great and of abilitie to succour vs wee had lesse comfort Hee would stand vs in small stead if either his Will or his Power was defectiue if either hee could not or would not saue vs. His Goodnesse without his Greatnesse might fayle vs His Greatnesse without his Goodnesse would terrifie vs. It is a happy concurrence when Mercie and Truth meet togeather when Righteousnesse and Peace kisse each other So sweetly singes the Psalmist Graciou● is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull Wherevpon S. Ambros. Bis misericordiam posuit semel iustitiam He is once sayd to be Righteous but twice in one verse to be Gratious It is sweete when both are conioyned as in the first and last verse of this Psalme O giue thaenkes to the Lord for hee is good for his Mercie endureth for euer The Lord is Good though Great yet also Good and his Mercie so well as his Iustice endures for euer Man hath no such assurance of comfort in God as to meditate that his great Power and good Will his Glory and Grace his Maiestie and Mercie met togeather These be Gods two Daughters Iustice and Mercie Let vs honour them both but let vs kisse and imbrace Mercie But alas wee haue dealt vnkindly with them both God hath two Daughters and we haue rauished them There is a Storie of a man that meeting in a Desart with two Virgin-sisters hee did rauish both of them Afterwards on his apprehension the former desired that he might iustly die for it The other did intreat as earnestly that he might liue and that she might enioy him for her Husband Man is that rauisher and those two Virgins are the Iustice and Mercie of God Against his Iustice we haue sinned and prouoked his indignation to strike vs yea euen his Mercie we haue abused For her sake we haue been spared and a longer day of repentance giuen vs yet we haue despised the riches of this Mercie and presuming on Mercie haue dared to multiply our transgressions Iustice pleades to God that we should die vrgeth his Law Who so euer sinneth shall die And Death is the wages of sinne Mercie intreats beseecheth that wee may liue and produceth the Gospell Who so euer repents shall be pardoned Who so euer beleeues shall be saued And for further assurance brings foorth that blessed Pardon sealed in the Wounds and Blood of Iesus Christ. God hearkens to Mercie for his Sonnes sake though wee haue rauished and wronged his Mercie yet for Mercies sake we shall be forgiuen But then we must be marryed to Mercie marryed in our Fayth beleeuing on Christ marryed in our good life being merci●ull vnto men The Blessing WEe see the Author let vs looke on his Blessing● Light Hee hath-s●●wed vs Light Wee are come into the Light and therefore haue light enough of an ample Discourse But my purpose is onely to shew you this Light as the word is in my Text not to dwell on it though I pray that all you and my selfe may for euer dwell in it LIGHT SVch as the Giuer is such is the Gift 1. Ioh. ● God is Light and in him is no Darknesse at all And S. Iames cals him the Father of Light God is So Glorious a Light that as the Sunne dazeleth the eyes too stedfastly fixed on it so his incomprehensible Maiestie confounds all those that too curiously pry into it So Cleare a Light that hee sees into all corners The eyes of God are in euery place beholding the euill and the good Hee searcheth more narrowly then the beames of the Sunne Hee sees Briberie in the Office Adulterie in the Closs●t Fraude in the Shoppe though the Pent-house makes it as darke as a roome in Bedlam So Good a Light that in him is no darknesse not so much as a shadow There is none in him there comes none from him Indeed hee made outward Darknesse of Hell the wages of sinne But he neuer made the inward Darknesse of the Soule which is sinne So Constant a Light that though the Sunne be variable in his Course somtimes shining bright often Clouded yet God is without change as the Moone without Eclipsing as the Sunne without Setting as the Starres So Spreading a Light that he communicates it to vs. This is the true Light which Lighteth euery one that commeth into the world Without whom we should haue beene wrapped in an eternall miserable Darkenesse but that he sent one To giue Light to them that sate in Darkenesse and in the shadow of Death to guide their feete into the way of Peace And this is the Light which he here sheweth vs. By the consent of all Expositors in this Psalme is Typed the comming of Christ and his kingdome of the Gospell This is manifested by an Exaltation by an Exultation by a Petition by a Benediction The Exaltation Ver. 22. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the Corner The Iewes refused this Stone but God hath Built his Church vpon it The Exultation Ver. 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made wee will reioyce and be glad in it A more blessed Day then that Day was wherein hee made man when he had done making the world Reioyce we and be glad in it The Petition Ver. 25. Saue now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now Prosperytie Thy Iustice would not suffer thee to saue without the Messias he is come Saue Now O Lord I beseech thee Our Sauiour is come let mercie and saluation come along with him The Benediction makes all cleare ver 25. Blessed be hee that commeth in the name of the Lord. For what Dauid here prophecied the people after accomplished Math. 21. Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. The Corollary or Summe is in my Text. ver 27. God is the Lord that hath shewed vs light bind the Sacrifice with Cordes to the Hornes of the Altar It was truly sayd Lex est Lux the Law is Light But vnable to light vs to Heauen not through it owne but our deficiencie Hereon it did not saue but condemne vs. Lex non damnans est ficta et picta Lex That Law that doth not condemne vs is a faigned and painted Law The Apostle calles it the Ministration of death Let then the lesse Light giue place to the greater Legalia fuerunt ante passionem Domini vina Statim post passionem mortua hodie sepulta The Legall rites were before the Passion of Christ aliue straight after his Passion dead now buried Or as another The Ceremonies of the Law were in their prime Mortales in Christes age Mortuae in our time Mortiferae They were at first Dying in our Sauiours time Dead in ours Deadly The Law was giuen by Moses

with Cordes Bind the Sacrifice with Cordes 4. This Sacrifice must be bound with Cordes to the Alter Bind the Sacrifice with Cordes to the Alter 5. This Sacrifice must be 1. Bound 2. With Cordes 3. To the Altar 4. Yea euen to the Hornes of the Alter you see the Totum is Thankefullnesse and the Bill hath fiue particulars 1. The Sacrifice is Deuotion 2. Binding the Sacrifice constant Deuotion 3. With Cordes seruent Deuotion 4. To the Altar rectified Deuotion 5. To the Hornes of the Altar confident Deuotion Deuotion is the Mother and she hath foure Daughters 1. Constancie Binde the Sacrifice 2. Feruencie Binde it with Cordes 3. Wisdome Binde it to the Altar 4. Confidence Euen to the Hornes of the Altar Sacrifice Is the act of our Deuote Thankefulnesse I might here to no great purpose trauell a large field of discourse for Sacrifices But it were no other but where the Scripture offereth vs the companie a Myle to compell it to goe with vs twaine All Sacrifices are either Expiatorie or Gratulatorie Expiatory for the condonation of sinnes Gratulatory for the Donation of graces So in a word they were either Sin-offerings or Peace-offrings The Sin-offrings of the Iewes had two maine ends 1. To acknowledge Peecat● stipendium mortem that Death was the wages of sinne due to the Sacrificers layd on the Sacrificed 2. Mystically simbolically to prefigure the killing of the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world So Caluin Semperillis ante oculos simbola proponi oportu●t They had euer neede of signes and types and figuratiue demonstrations before their eyes But those Saecrifices are abolished in Christ who offered one Sacrifice for sinnes for euer and that such a one as was a sweete smelling Sauour to God It was a prettie obseruation that the last Character of the Hebrew Alphabet was a plaine Figure of Christs Crosse to shew that his Sacrifice ended all theirs Ours is the second kind a Gratulatorie Sacrifice Our Prophet heere speaking of the dayes of the Gospell Then Bind this Sacrifice with Cordes c. Christ is our Altar let our selues be the Sacrifice the Fire that kindles it the Loue of God the Smoake that goes vp the consumption of our sinnes That this Sacrifice may be acceptable I will shew you how it must be done how it must not be done 1. What is to be excluded 2. How it ought to be qualified Exclusiuely IT must be sine Pelle sine Melle sine Felle sine Macula 1. Sine Pelle without the Skinne of Ostentation which indeed makes them not Sacrificia but Sacrilegia Not Sacrifices but Sacriledges They are so Opera muta Dumbe deedes nay rather Opera mendacij Loude lying workes as if they told God a good tale how they loued him when they meant to deceiue him God will require all vntruthes betweene man and man but fallacies and falsehoods done betweene the Porch and the Altar in the shadow of the Church and vnder the pretence of his seruice he will sorely reuenge The casting vp of the Eyes the bowing downe of the Knees the vncouering the Head moouing the Lippes knocking the Brest sighing and crying what meane they are they not symptomes and demonstratiue witnesses of an inward compunction Are they not a protestation that the Soule is speaking to God If there be not an honest Heart within this is but the Skinne of a Sacrifice And they that giue God the Skinne for the Bodie God will giue them the Skinne for the Body the shadow of Blessings for the substance It is storied of one that solde his wife Glasses for Pearles Imposturam faecit et passus est Hee cossened and was cossened They that sell the Lord of Heauen how so euer they may deceiue his Spouse the Church on earth Glasses for Pearles Shelles for Kernels Copper for Gold Barke for Bulke Shew for Substa●nce Fansie for Conscience God will be euen with them and giue them Stones for Bread Images of Delight for substantiall Ioyes Imposturam faci●●t ●t patienter They deceiue and shall be deceiued 2. Sine Melle There must be no Honey of selfe-complacencie in this Sacrifice Psal. 51. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise A true Sacrifice consistes not onely Faciendo but Patiendo in doing but in dying or suffering for Christ. In the Law Beastes appoynted for Sacrifice were first slaine and so offred In the Gospell Christians must first mortifie their earthly members and crucifie their carnall lustes and then offer vp themselues As Death takes away the Naturall lif● so Mortification must take away the Sensuall life Moriatur ergo homo ne moriatur Mutetur ne damnetur Let a man die that he may not die let him be changed that he be not damned Onely the mortified man is the true liuing Sacrifice It must not then be Honey to our Palates but bitter euen so bitter as Abnegare suos sua se to deny our Friendes to deny our Goods to deny our selues for Christ his cause 3. Sine Felle There must be no Amarulentia no Gall of bitternesse in this Sacrifice Math. 5. If thou bring thy gift to the Altar and remembrest that thy Brother hath ought against thee leaue there thy gift and goe thy way first be reconciled to thy Brother and then offer it If thy Brother hath ought against thee God hath more If thou haue somewhat against thy Brother God hath somewhat against thee Goe ye and learne what that meaneth I will haue Mercie and not Sacrifice Whiles you trippe vp mens heeles with Fraudes lay them along with Sutes tread on them with Oppressions blow them vp with Vsuries Iniuries Your Sacrifice is full of Gall. It was said in wonder Is Saul among the Prophets So what makes a Slaunderer a Defrauder an Vsurer an Oppressor at Church They come not sine Felle without the Gall of Vncharitablenesse they shall returne siue Melle without the Honey of Gods Mercies To doe good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Mercifull workes are Pro sacrificijs imo prae sacrificijs Equall to Sacrifices aboue Sacrifices in Gods acceptance 4. Sine Macula Leuit. 22. God commaunds that his Sacrifice be without Blemish nor blinde nor broken nor maymed nor infected c. Therefore a Lambe without spotte was offered for a morning and an euening Sacrifice And the Lambe of God in an antitypicall relation is truly sayd Immaculatus a Lambe without spotte without blemish The Drunkard is without a head the Swearer hath a Garget in his throat the Couetous hath a lame hand hee cannot giue to the poore the Epicure hath a gorbelly the Adulterer is a scabbed Goate the Worldling wants an eye the Ruffian an eare the Coward a heart these are Mutila Sacrificia lame defectiue luxate vnperfect Sacrifices The Prophet Esay begins and endes his Prophecie with a