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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

doe neither good nor harme 3. They say we die like men we can neither keepe our selues from sinne nor our bodyes from death 4. They say all we say is but wordes So Galuo called the Gospell a question of wordes I answere 1. Men indeed but men of God so were the Prophets receiued and called and Let a man so thinke of vs as of the Ministers of Christ. We are intelligent creatures by Nature but of Diuine vnderstanding by Grace The thinges which no eye hath seene c. hath Gods spirit reuealed to vs. Surely the Lord will doe nothing but he reuealeth his secrets to his Seruantes the Prophets Thou braggest thou hast two eyes as well as thy Minister thou hast indeed one eye of Nature and that 's Nequam a wicked one another of Reason and that 's Necquicquam a blind one the one naught the other naughty and standest in need of the Ministers eye to guide thee Thou demaundest a worthyer Messenger but when God spake to Israel in thunder when by Angels they cryed Oh let Man speake to vs least we perish If an Angell or a Man say Christ is borne it is not more true in the Angell then in the Man 2. Simple men yet is the word powerfull The Iewes thought they knew Christ and his breeding is not this the Carpenters Sonne yet he taught as one hauing authority not as the verball Scribes You thinke it shame enough and extreame disgrace against vs to say you know our beginnings yet is God able to turne the proudest of you by the simplest of vs or if not conuert as the sauour of life yet conuince as the sauour of death and make your Mutimus to that common Iaylour deliuering your incorrigible Soules to Satan for whom we bind on Earth are bound in Heauen We dye like men but our wordes liue the Prophets told the Iewes that they should goe into Ba●ilon Captiues The high places of Jshac shall be desolate and the Temples of Jsraell destroyed c. Behold the Prophets dye but their words liue Judah is carried away Captiue she dwelleth among the Heathen And by the riuers of Babell they sitte and weepe when they remember Sion So we denounce the iudgements of God against the obstinate and tell the Vsurer maugre his pile of Bondes heape of Pawnes bagges of Coine morgages of Lands that his seed shall inherit the winde and his hoords are no other then the gathering of the clouds which once full promise the dispersion of the greater showers behold we are layd low in our graues yet our sayings haue their timely proofes the seed of the couetous come to ruine behold the ryotous Heire sicke and diseased through his intemperance his intemperance bred of the fulnesse of his state his full estate begot by his Fathers Parsimony miserablenesse nay perhaps iniustice Behold I say this man glad of a roome in the Hospitall for necessitie which his Father built of his superfluitie Thus the word we preach passeth not but is more immortall then the Heauen 4. All we say is but wordes meere talke so you may contemne all the workes of God and say it was but talke that made the world for By his word he made it This is a common slaunder when the Hel-hound the couetous wretch pincheth on the Priestes side No matter let him talke for his liuing yes and haue none the time may come if they call it talking they may talke for Mercie too and haue none If they call Gods speaking to them talking what is their speaking to God There is difference betwixt speaking talking and saying speaking comes by nature talking by custome saying by art Children speake Fooles talke Learned men say All that haue the organs of voyce can speake and talke but not say Solius est oratoris dicere vulgi l●qui Tulli● could affirme it that an Oratour onely sayes the common people talkes Our Preaching is not then talking but saying a sententious and deliberate speach vttered to purpose composed by study and the direction of Gods holy spirit who with our wordes windes deedes shutting where we shut and opening where we haue opened 2. Afflict not Is this possible can Lambes be among Woolues and not be bitten Ecce mitto vos c Behold I send you as Lambes among Woolues hee sayd so that foreknew our vsage Amara est veritas et qui eam praedicat repletur amaritudine Bitter is the Truth and he that preacheth it shall be filled with bitternes The cause of the worldes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hatred of Christ Joh. 7. is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because J witnesse against it that the workes thereof are euill It is written of the Christians in the life of Nero that they preserued the state yet Dogges must deuoure them they made Aurelius Armie to prosper and by their Prayers obtayned thunder to destroy the enemies yet Christianos ad Leones throw the Christians to the Lyons It hath euer been the Poesie of the Church Facere bonum et habere malum to doe good and to suffer euill So Christ himselfe sped he healed and was hurt he pittyed and was mocked he saued others himselfe was killed The colour of our Liuery on earth is either Blacke mourning or Redde persecuted The Armes of the Church is the Crosse and her perpetuall Song is her militant state like that oppressed Seruantes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 J suffer I suffer this is Christes Dish and the Apostles Sauce Behold ôh Minister the straite thou art in neither woonder nor weepe nor faint this thou mightest haue preuented by keeping out cannot be auoyded now thou art in If we doe our duetie the World will hate vs if not God will curse vs by the first we are in danger to loose our goods good names liues by the second our Soules our Heauen our God At pretium pars haec corpore maius habet Our worldly losses may be deare to vs yet drosse and trash and rubbish in regard of God and blisse Woe vnto vs that suffer more woe to you that make vs. 3. Impouerish not I doe not say make vs rich by your owne pouertie as your progenitours did by our predecessours but at least giue vs our owne The old Pharise was an honest man in this for hee thought it a true position Decima vt diues fias Tyth and be rich but we thinke tyth and be poore To communicate with our Teacher in all our goodes is not Scripture though Paul himselfe speake it a competencie will serue they are wiser then God their competencies haue brought vs to impotencies a Stoole a Cruze and a Candlestick and a small Roome are superaboundance for a Priest wee need not with that order of the Popish Priests pull on our selues a voluntary beggery for Gentlemen we thanke them for it haue enforced vs to it on necessity I will not dispute whether Tythes