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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

that wee are and when she sees vs proud and forgetfull of our selues shee thinkes with her selfe Why should not shee that is descended as well as we beare vp her plumes as high as ours Therefore she so often borrowes wings of the winde to mount aloft into the ayre and in the streets and high wayes dasheth herselfe into our eyes as if shee would say Are you my kinred and will not know me will you take no notice of your owne mother To taxe the folly of our ambition the dust in the street takes pleasure to bee ambitious The Iewes in their mourning vsed to rend their garments as if they would bee reuenged on them for encreasing their pride and keeping them from the sight of their nakednesse Then they put on sackcloth and that sackcloth they sprinkled ouer with dust and ouerstrawed with ashes to put God in minde that if hee should arme his displeasure against them he should but contend with dust and ashes and what glory could that bee for him Shall the dust praise thee O God or art thou glorified in the pit Nay rather how often doth the Lord spare vs because hee remembers wee are but dust To shew that they had lifted vp themselues aboue their creation and forgot of what they are made now by by Repentance returning to their first Image in all prostrate humility they lay in the dust confessing that the wind doth not more easily disperse the dust then the breath of God was able to bring them to nothing Thus Dust is not onely Materia nostra or Mater our Mother or matter wherof we are made for our foundation is in the dust But Patria nostra our Countrey where we shall dwell Awake yee that dwell in the dust We are no better then the dust wee shake off from our feete or brush off from our clothes O therefore let vs turne to God in dust before hee turne vs into dust Yea Saint Augustine goes further and sayes that not onely the bodies of all men but euen the soules of some men are no better then dust They are so set vpon earth and earthly things that they are transformed into earth and dust and so become the food of that old Serpent whose punishment was to eate the dust For Ashes they are the Embleme or representation of greater misery Dust onely shewes vs that wee haue deserued the dissolution of our bodies Ashes put vs in mind that wee haue merited also the destruction of our Soules Ashes are the leauings of the fire the offalls of consumed substances When God shall giue vp the largest buildings of Nature to the rage of that Element it shall reduce them to a narrowe roome the remnants shall bee but ashes This was all the Monument of those famous cities Sodome Gomorra and the rest heapes of ashes Ecce vix totam Hercules impleuit vrnam sayes the Poet that great Gyant scarce makes a pitcher of ashes For this cause the Ancients vsed to repent in Ashes remonstrating to themselues that they deserued burning in endlesse fire more then those Ashes wherein they wallowed Yea if Abraham compared himselfe to dust and ashes I may compare my soule to a sparke hid in the Ashes which when sickenesse and death shall stirre vp like fire shee takes her flight vpwards and leaues the heauy fruitlesse ashes of my bodie behind her In both wee haue a L●sson of our owne mortalitie The finger of GOD hath written the Epitaph of man the condition of his bodie like Characters printed in the Dust. Mans body so well as the yce expounds that Riddle the gignit filia matrem the daughter begets the mother Dust begot a bodie and a bodie begets Dust. Our bodies were a● first strong Cities but then wee made them the Forts of Rebels our offended Liege sent his Serieant Death to arrest vs of high Treason And though for his mercies sake in Christ hee pardoned our sinnes yet hee suffers vs no more to haue such strong houses but le ts vs dwell in paper Cottages mudde walles mortall bodies Methusalem liued nine hundred sixtie nine yeares yet hee was the sonne of Enoch who was the sonne of Iared who was the sonne of Malaleel who was the sonne of Cainan who was the sonne of Enos who was the sonne of Seth who was the sonne of Adam who was the sonne of Dust. Aske the woman that hath conceiued a childe in her wombe Will it bee a Sonne Peraduenture so Will it bee well formed and featured Peraduenture so Will it be wise Peraduenture so Will it be rich Peraduenture so Will it be long-liued Peraduenture so Will it be mortall Yes this is without peraduenture it will die Euen a Heathen when hee heard that his son was dead could say without changing countenance Scio me genuisse mortalem I know that I begot a mortall man An olde man is said to giue Alexander a little Iewell and tolde him that it had this vertue so long as hee kept it bright it would out-value the most fine golde or precious stone in the world but if it once tooke dust it would not bee worth a feather What meant the Sage but to giue the Monarch an Embleme of his owne body which being animated with a Soule commanded the world but once fallen to dust it would be worth nothing for a liuing dog is better then a dead Lyon I conclude I call you not to casting Dust on your heads or sitting in Ashes but to that sorrow and compunction of Soule whereof the other was but an externall Symbole or testimonie Let vs rend our hearts and spare our garments humble our soules without afflicting our bodies It is not a corps wrapp'd in Dust and Ashes but a contrite heart which the Lord will not despise Let vs repent our sinnes and amend our liues so God will pardon vs by the merites saue vs by the mercies and crowne vs with the glories of Iesus Christ. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE TRIENNIALL Visitation of the Right Reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of LONDON in Christ-Church BY THOMAS ADAMS LONDON Printed by Aug. Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1625. A VISITATION SERMON ACTES 15.36 And some dayes after Paul said vnto Barnabas Let vs goe againe and visite our Brethren in euery Citie where wee haue preached the Word of the Lord and see how they doe THere bee certaine royall Lawes which Christ and his Apostles made for eternal vse to the obseruation whereof all Christian Nations and persons are vnchangeably bound And there be some ritual things which were at the first conuenient but variable according to the difference of times and places Strictly to impose all these circumstances on vs were to make vs not the sonnes but the slaues of the Apostles That is a fond scrupulositie which would presse vs in all fashions with a conformitie to the Primitiue times as if the Spouse of Christ might not weare a lace or a border for which shee

like lightning The morall is the wealth that comes in Gods name comes slowly and with diligent labour but that which is haled in with an euill conscience is both hasty abundant in the collection This is the worldlings maine god all the rest be subordinate to him Si modo Iupiter mihi propitius sit minores deòs flocci sacio So long as Mammon fauours them or their Great Diana multiplies their gaines they scorne the other petty gods making account with a little money to buy them all This is an Idol of the Earth No agreement Ye cannot serue God and Mammon you may dispute for it you shall neuer compound it Gehezi cannot run after the forbidden talents but hee must leaue his master Some indeed here haue so finely distinguished of the busines that though they serue God they wil serue him more thriftily and please him as good cheape as they can They haue resolued not to do euill though they may gaine by it yet for gaine they will venture as neere euill as possibly they can and misse it But when it comes to push it wil be found that for onescruple of gold they will make no s●ruple of conscience But as those Inhabitants of Iudea that serued both God Idols did indeed neither serue God nor Idols so these higlers while they would haue two masters 〈◊〉 indeed neuer a one For in the euill day their master the world will renounce them then their master Christ will not receiue them so highly doth hee scorne such a competition Man was made to serue God and the world to serue man so the world at best is but Gods seruants seruant Now if we plead our selues Gods seruāts what an indign preposterous thing is it to take our owne seruant and make him competitor with our Master God sayes lend giue clothe feed harbor Mammon sayes Take gather extort oppresse spoile whether of these is our God Euen he that is most obeyed No lesse might be said for pleasures and honors or whatsoeuer is delectable to flesh and blood The loue of this world is enmity to God and the East West shall sooner vnite their forces thé these be recōciled lt is the Deuils especiall ayme to bring these Idols neere the Temple he finds no such pleasure to dominere in his owne hell but he hath a mind to Paradise One wittily obserueth that Christ chose poore Fishermen as the fittest to receiue his Oracles to plant his Church because Satan scorned to looke so low as to tempt them He studied to preuent Christ among the Kings of the earth and great Doctors neuer suspecting silly fishers But when he found himself deceiued he will then make their whole profession to fare the worse for it he beares the whole succession of their Tribe an old grudge Before he passed by them and tempted the great Masters now he wil sooner tempt them then Kings and Emperors The Church doth not iudge them that are without but them within and Satan had rather foile one within then a hundred without Hee hath a desire to all but especially he loues a religious soule he would eat that with more greedines then Rachel did her Mandrakes The fall of one Christian better pleaseth him then of many vnbeleeuers No King makes war against his owne loyall subiects but against rebels enemies The deuill is to subtill to spend his malice vpō them that do him ready seruice He cares not so much to multiply Idols in Babylon as to get one into Sion To maintaine priests of Baal in the land of Israel at the table of Iesabel as it were vnder Gods nose or to set vp Calues at Bethel in scorne of the Temple this is his ambition The Fox seldome preyes neere home nor doth Satan meddle with his owne they are as sure as temptation can make them What Iailor laies more chaines vpon the shackled malefactor that loues his prison and would not change The Pirate spends not a shot vpon a cole-ship but he lets flie at the rich Merchant Cantabit vacuus the empty traueller may passe vnmolested it is the full barne that inuites the thiefe If we were not belonging to the Temple we should not be assaulted with so many Idols if not Christians fewer tentations Now the more potent and malicious our aduersaries the more resolute and strong bee our resistance The more extreame the cold is without the more doth the naturall heat fortifie it selfe within guard the heart It is the note of the vngodly that they blesse Idols if we would not bee such let vs blesse our selues from Idols And as wee haue banished the materiall Idols out of our Temples so let vs driue these spirituall ones out of our hearts Let vs say with Ephraim we haue heard God seene him What haue we to doe any more with Idols The vices of the religious are the shame of religion the sight of this hath made the stoutest Champions of Christ melt into teares Riuers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy Law Dauid was one of those great Worthies of the world not matchable in his times yet he weepes Did hee teare in pieces a beare like a kid rescue a lambe with the death of a lyon foile a mighty gyant that had dared the whole army of God Did he like a whirlewind beare and beat down his enemies before him and now does he like a childe or a woman fall a weeping Yes he had heard the name of God blasphemed seene his holy rites prophaned his statutes vilipended and violence offered to the pure and intemerate Chastity of that holy virgin Religion this resolued that valiant heart into teares Riuers of waters run down mine eyes So Paul I tell you of them weeping that are enemies to the Crosse of Christ. Had he with so magnanimous a courage endured stripes and persecutions run through perils of all sorts and sizes fought with beasts at Ephesus been rapt vp to heauen and learn'd his Diuinitie among the Angels does he now weep Yes he had seene Idols in the Temple Impiety in the Church of God this made that great spirit melt into teares If we see these Idols in others or feele them in our selues and complaine not we giue God and the Church iust cause to complaine of vs. Now the Lord deliuer his Temples from these Idols But all this while wee haue walked in generals and you will say Quod omnibus dicitur nemini dicitur let mee now therefore come to particulars The Temple of God Is euery Christian as the Church is his great Temple so his little temple is euery man We are not onely through his grace liuing stones in his Temple but liuing temples in his Sion each one bearing about him a little shrine of that infinite Maiestie Wheresoeuer God dwels there is his Temple therefore the beleeuing heart is his Temple for there he dwels As wee poore creatures of the earth haue