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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02771	The temple A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the fifth of August. 1624. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 129; ESTC S100422	35,512	74

which was deuised against the will of heauen Doth not God threaten them with the addition of plagues that shall adde to his precepts If such deuices be good and necessary why did not God command them Did he want wisdome If they bee not necessary why doe wee vse them Is it not our presumptuous folly The Lords Ielousie is stirred vp by the rivalitie not onely of a false God but of a false worship Nothing is more dangerous then to mint his seruices in our owne braines In vaine doe they worship mee teaching for doctrines Math. 16.9 the commandements of men Is it not grieuous for men to lose all their labour and that in the maine busines of their life That so many hundred oblations so many thousand prayers so much cost of their purses so much affliction to their bodies so much anguish of their soules should be all forceles fruitles Like a dog that hunts counter and takes great paines to no purpose Euill deeds may haue sometimes good meanings but those good meanings are answered with euill recompences Many bestow their labors their goods their bloods and yet receiue torments in stead of thanks When the Apostle bids vs mortifie our earthly members Coloss 3.5 hee does not intend violence to our selues but to our sinnes There is one mortification to cast our selues out of the world there is another mortification to cast the world out of vs. A body macerated with scourges disabled with fastings wearied with pilgrimages was none of S. Pauls mortification Who hath required this at your hands Where is no commaund imposed no reward proposed no promise made if you doe no punishment threatned if you doe not what fruit can be expected but shame Must wee needs either doe nothing or that which is worse then nothing Shall we offer so much suffer so much and all in vaine Quis haec à vobis Let him pay you your wages that did set you on worke Neuer plead your owne reason where God hath set a plaine interdiction He that suffers his faith to be ouerruled by his reason may haue a fat reason but a leane faith That man is not worthy to bee a follower of Christ who hath not denied himselfe therefore denied his Reason for his reason is no small piece of himselfe If Reason get the head in this diuine businesse it presently preuailes with will and will commands the affections so this new Triumvirate shall gouerne the Christian Saboll par 1. not Faith But as when three Ambassadors were sent from Rome to appease the discord betweene Nicomedes and Prusias whereof one was troubled with a Megrim in his head another had the Gowt in his toes and the third was a foole Cato said merrily that Ambassage had neither Head nor Foot nor Heart So that man shall neither haue a head to conceiue the truth nor a foot to walke in the wayes of obedience nor a heart to receiue the comforts of saluation that suffers his reason will and affections to vsurpe vpon his faith Hence it comes to passe that the most horrid sinnes are turned into Idols by setting our owne reasons against the manifest will of God Thus lies shall bee father'd vpon the Father of truth and truth vpon the Father of lies Thus breach of faith and periurie shall be held Orthodoxe opinions Yea that execrable monster whereof this day remembers vs Treason it selfe shall be held good Doctrine Rude cacodaemon that stigmaticke Idol that grosse deuill shall be worshiped Si fas cadendo coelestia scandere If this be the way to the kingdome of heauen if thus men may merit to be starres in the Firmament by embruing their hands in the bloud-Royall of Princes what Iesuite will not be a Star When such bee their principles such must needes bee their practices What though God condemne Treason to hell when the Pope will aduance it to heauen What though the Diuine Scripture doth ranke traitors among dogs deuils when the Pope will number them among Saints It was wont to be said Ex quolibet ligno non fit Mercurius euery block is not fit to make an Image Yet now the most monstrous sinne that euer the deuill shaped in his Infernall forge is not onely by the practice but euen by the Doctrine of Rome turned into an Idol What is that we shal call fin when murther Treason is held religion Alas for our age to beare the date of these impieties That our posterity should euer reade in our Chronicles In such a yeare in such a day Traitors conspired against their lawfull Gracious Soueraigne and that in those dayes there was a sect of men liuing that did labour in voluminous writings to iustifie those horrible facts But oh may those pestiferous monuments be as fast deuoured by obliuion as the authors and abettors themselues are swallowed vp by confusion And the same God deliuer vs his people from their conspiracies that hath deliuered this his Church from their Idolatries Thus wee haue looked abroad but now haue we no Idols at home O how happy was it if they were as farre from the Temple as they are from agreement with the Temple I will not abound in this discouery there be three maine Idols among vs Vaine Preasure vaine Honor and Riches it is to be feared that these three vanities haue more clients then the Trinity that made vs. The first is an Idol of the water the next an Idol of the ayre the last an Idol of the earth 1. Vaine Pleasure and oh what a world of foolish worshippers flocke to this merry Goddesse Shee hath a Temple in euery corner Ebrietie sits in Tauernes burning smoky Incense and sacrificing drink-offrings to her So that if a man should prophesie of wine and strong drinke Mich. 2.11 he were a Prophet fit for this age but to preach sobrietie is held but a dry doctrine We commend wine for the excellency of it but if it could speak as it can take away speech it would complaine that by our abuse both the excellencies are lost for the excellent man doth so spoile the excellent wine vntill the excellent wine hath spoiled the excellent man O that a man should take pleasure in that which makes him no man that he should let a thiefe in at his mouth to steale away his wit that for a little throat-indulgence hee should kill in himselfe both the first Adam his reason but euen the second Adam his regeneration so commit two murders at once In euery Brothell this Idol hath her temple where the bed of vncleannes is the Altar the Priest a strumpet and the sacrifice a burning flesh offred to Moloch It is no rare thing for a man to make an Idol of his Mistres and to spend more time in her courtings then he doth at his prayers more cost on her body thē vpon his own soule Images were but dead Idols but painted Popinjayes be liuing Idols Pleasure hath a larger extent then I can