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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

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

Stiles be communicable the termes are not convertible for euery Bishop is a Priest but euery Priest is not a Bishop As this therefore no way diminisheth their authoritie for Episcopus est sacerdotum Princeps saith Ignatius so it commendeth their humilitie to call vs Brethren If wee offend Paterna agant let them correct vs as their children while wee doe well Fraterna teneant let them encourage vs as their Brethren God is not tyed to meanes for illumination of the mind hee often lights a great Lampe of the Sanctuary at a little wax Taper as he did Paul by Ananias And for mouing of affections often with a puffe of winde hee stirres vp the waues of the great Ocean Deus non est parvus in paru● not straitned according to the smalnesse of the Organ On the one side loue and grauitie on the other side obedience and sinceritie on all sides holinesse and humilitie becomes the Ministers of Iesus Christ. The Exercise or due practise of this office Let vs goe againe Let vs goe that is goe personally Let vs goe againe that is goe frequently 1. Let vs goe not send our Deputie but go our selues He that sends sees by anothers eyes and takes the state of things vpon trust If wee goe wee see by our owne and our owne eyes be our best informers How is he Episcopus that neuer ouerlooks So Saint Ierome in his Epistle to Nepotian nitatur esse quod dicitur Hee is an ill Shepheard that does not know Vultum pecoris Know the state of thy flockes and the face of thy herds Desire to see them quomodo Moses voluit videre Deum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 face to face In the Prouerb Domini oculus pascit equū vestigia eius pinguefaciunt agrum The Masters eye feeds the horse the presence of the Bishop like the Northwind dispels infection It was Pauls continuall feare some preuarication in his absence I feare I shall not find you such as I would and that I shall be found to you such as you would not Saint Peters Shadow wrought miracles but now the Bishops shadow will work no miracles This is one speciall thing to be visited and examined the residence of Pastors in their Charges It is an vnhappy thing for a man to be a stranger at home Damasus compares such to wanton women which no sooner beare children but presently put them forth to nurse that with lesse trouble they may returne to their old pleasure● Peraldus a Popish writer is so bitter against those that feed their flocks by Deputies that hee sayes It is as if a man should marry a wife and suffer another to get children by her ●ludque Clictovaei magis salsum quam falsum Vicariam quidem salutem personalem verò perniciem talisbusmanere I know there is a Residence Persona●l and Pastorall and hee that is a stranger to the Pulpit though he straggle not out of the bounds of his Parish is the greatest Non-resident And I grant that in some cases a dispensation is requisite Cedat minus maiori yet it is no hurt to pray God perswade them all to dwell in their owne Tents But it is not well for a Preacher to bee like a doore when it is once oyled then to leaue creaking It was a Friers conceit vpon Gen. 6. when the Clergie those sonnes of God began to doat vpon the daughters of men to be enamoured on temporall preferments then by such mariages monsters were begot in the Church and the Sanctuary of God was filled with Gyants far from the shape of Christians It is pitie but the Bishop should forbid the Bannes and if any such Marriage be it is more then time to make it a nullitie by diuorcing them from Idlenesse couetousnesse and ambition The faithfull Steward is hee that giues the houshold their portion of meate in due season 1. Hee must giue them all meat young and olde rich and poore weake and strong 2. In due season that is when their appetites call for it nay hee must not alwayes stay till they desire it 3. Proprijs manibus he must do it with his owne hands hee is but a deputie and therefore is not euermore allowed a deputy Let vs go our selues 2. Let vs goe againe The building of the Church goes slowly forward though there bee many labourers there be more hinderers God neuer had so many friends as enemies If the Ouerseers looke not well to the businesse too many will make Church-worke of it for such loytering is now fallen into a Prouerbe Men are fickle as were the Galatians and Churches of Asia if they be not often visited they will soone be corrupted Luther said in Wittenberge that a few fanaticall fellowes had pulled downe more in a short space then all they could build vp againe in twentie yeares The deuill is alwayes busie and it is no small labour to earth that Fox The plant which we would haue thriue must be often watered The Apostles did visite to confirme and comfort because that was a time of persecution Our mischiefe is intestine Pax a paganis pax ab haereticis nulla pax a falsis filijs Let but Moses turne his back and ascend the mount to bee Israels Lieger with God the people presently speake of making a Calfe Hee went but on their Ambassage to their Maker yet as if they had seene him take his heeles and run into the wildernesse he is no sooner vanished out of their sight then out of their mind and they fall to Idolatry Our Churches are not like Irish timber if they bee not continually swept there will bee spiders and cobwebs If the seruants sleepe the Masters field is not priuiledged from Tares Therefore to preuent dangers and to heale diseases frequent visitation is necessary for the Church of Christ. The Moderation or seasonablenes of it After certaine dayes Ex assiduitate vilitas that which is too common b●comes cheape and loseth credit Due respirations are requisite in the holiest actes God is so fauourable to his creatures that he requires them not to bee ouertoyled in the workes of his owne seruice When the Temple was a preparing the thirtie thousand workmen wrought not continuedly but with intermission One moneth they were in Lebanon and two at home so their labour was more generous lesse burthensome Euer ten thousand did work while twentie thousand breathed The mind that is ouerlaid with businesse growes dull and heauy ouer lauish expence of spirits leaues it heart-lesse The best horse will tire soonest if the reines lye loose on his necke Perfection comes by leasure and no excellent thing is done at once The Gourd which came vp in a night withered in a day but the plants that liue long rise slowly It is the rising and setting of many Sunnes that ripens the businesse both of nature and arte Who would not rather chuse many competent meales then buy the gluttony of one day with the

will bee lost And as naturally the heart is first in being so here the Will which is meant by the Heart is chiefe in commanding The Centurions seruants did not more carefully obey him when hee sayd to one Goe and he goeth to another Come and hee commeth to a third Doe this and hee doth it then all the members obserue the Heart if it say to the eye See it seeth to the eare Heare it hearkeneth to the tongue Speake it speaketh to the foot Walke it walketh to the hand Worke it worketh If the Heart lead the way to God not a member of the body no● a facultie os the soule will stay behinde As when the Sunne ariseth in the morning Birds rise from their nestes Beastes from their dennes and Men from their beds They all say to the Heart as the Israelites did to Ioshuah All that thou commandest vs wee will doe and whither so●uer thou sendest vs wee will goe onely the Lord bee with thee Therefore the penitent Publican smote his heart as if hee would call vp that to call vp all the rest It cannot command and goe without No part of man can sinne without the heart the heart can sin without all the rest The Wolfe goes to the flocke purposing to deuoure a Lambe and is preuented by the vigilancie of the Shepheard yet Lupus exit Lupus regreditur hee went foorth a Wolfe and comes home a Wolfe The heart intends a sinne which is neuer brought into action yet it sinnes in that very intention The hand cannot offend without the heart the heart can offend without the hand The heart is like a Mill if the winde or water bee violent the Mill will goe whether the Miller will or not yet hee may chuse what kind of graine it shall grind wheat or darnell If the affections bee strong and passionate the heart will bee working yet the Christian by grace may keepe out lustes and supply it with good thoughts The Heart is Gods peculiar the thing hee especially cares for My sonne giue mee thy heart and good reason for I gaue my owne Sonnes heart to death for it Non minus tuum quia meum It is not lesse thine for being mine yea it cannot be thine comfortably vnlesse it bee mine perfectly God requires it principally but not onely giue him that and all the rest will follow He that giues me fire needs not bee requested for light and heat for they are inseparable Non corticis sed cordis Deus God doth not regard the rinde of the lipps but the root of the heart It was the Oracles answere to him that would bee instructed which was the best Sacrifice Da medium Lunae Solem simul canis iram which three characters make Cor the Heart Mans Affection is Gods Hall mans Memorie his Library mans Intellect his Priuie Chamber but his Closset Sacrary or Chappell is the Heart So Saint Augustine glosseth the Pater noster Qui es in coelis which art in heauen that is in a heauenly Heart All outward workes an hypocrite may doe onely hee failes in the Heart and because hee failes there he is lost euery where Let the flesh looke neuer so faire the good Cater will not buy it if the liuer bee spak'd Who will put that timber into the building of his house which is rotten at the heart Man iudgeth the heart by the workes God iudgeth the workes by the heart All other powers of man may be suspended from doing their offices but onely the Will that is the Heart Therefore God will excuse all necessary defects but onely of the Heart The blinde man cannot serue God with his eyes hee is excused the deafe cannot serue God with his eares hee is excused the dumbe cannot serue God with his tongue hee is excused the creeple cannot serue God with his feete hee is excused But no man is excused for not seruing God with his Heart Deus non respicit quantum homo valet sed quantum velit Saint Chrysostome seemed to bee angrie with the Apostle for saying Behold w●e haue left all and followed thee What haue you left an angle a couple of broken ne●tes and a weather beaten Fish-boat a faire deale to speak of But at last hee corrects himselfe I crie you mercie Saint Peter you haue forsaken all indeed for he t●uly leaues all that leaues Quod vel capit mundus vel cupit that takes his Heart from the world and giues it to Christ. All other faculties of man apprehend their obiects when they are brought home to them onely the Will the Heart goes home to the obiect Colour must come to the eye before it can see it sound to the eare before it can heare it the obiect to bee apprehended is brought home to the vnderstanding and past things are recollected to the memory before either can doe her office But the heart goes home to the obiect Vbi the saurus ibi cor Not where the heart is there will be the treasure but where the treasure is there will be the heart Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Of all the pure heart is beholding to God and shall one day behold God Therefore Dadid prayes Cor mundum crea in me Deus Create in mee a cleane heart O God The Lord rested from the workes of his Creation the seuenth day but so dearely hee loues cleane hearts that hee restes from creating them no day As Iehu said to ●e●●nadab Est t●bi cor r●ctum Is thy heart righ● Then giue mee thy hand come vp into my charriot So this is Gods question Is thy heart vpright Then giue mee thy hand ascend my triumphant Charriot the euerlasting glory of heauen To conclude because there is such difference of hearts and such need of a good one they put it to Him that knowes them all and knowes which is best of all For howsoeuer Nature knowes no difference nor is there any Quorum praecordia Titan De meliore luto finxit yet in regard of grace the sanctified heart is of purer metall then common ones A little liuing stone in Gods building is worth a whole Quarrey of the world One honest heart is better then a thousand other the richest Mine and the coursest mould haue not such a disproportion of value Man often failes in his Election God cannot erre The choise heere was extraordinary by lots yours is ordinary by Suffrages Gods hand is in both Great is the benefit of good Magistrates that wee may sit vnder our owne Vines goe in and out in peace eate our bread in saftie and which is aboue all leade our liues in honest libertie for all this wee are beholding vnder God to the Magistrate first the Supreme then the subordinate They are Trees vnder whose branches the people build and sing and bring vp their young ones in religious nourture That Silence in heauen about halfe an houre when the golden vialls were filled