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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

grain after graine take heed lest thou run not all to chaffe There is a Faith of Saints Gal. 2. Now liue not I but Christ liueth in mee and the life that I liue I liue by the Faith of the Sonne of God And there is a faith of Deuils Iam. 2. Thou beleeuest thou doest well the Deuils beleeue and tremble There is a faith which cannot perish Ioh. 3. Whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall not perish And there is a faith that in the time of temptation fals away Luk. 8. The rockie ground receiues the Word and for a while beleeueth but in the time of temptation fall away There is a faith which the world ouercommeth such was the faith of Demas And there is a faith that ouercommeth the world 1. Ioh. 5 This is the victorie whereby wee ouercome the world euen our faith There is a dead idle and infructuous faith Iam. 2. 14. And there is a liuely actiue working faith Gal. 5. Faith worketh by loue Bee sure then that thy faith will endure the toucheuen the fiery tryall 2 Doe not loose such a Legacie as Christ hath bequeathed for want of faith Glorious is the inheritance but where is thy Euidence Flatter not thy soule with hope of this possession without the assurance of faith Christ giues his life for his sheepe What is this to thee that art a Wolfe a Swine a Goate God dresseth his Vineyard pruneth it watereth it is prouident ouer it What 's this to thee that art a thorne and no branch of the Vine Looke thou to be weeded vp and throwne out The bloud of Christ runnes fresh but where is thy pipe of faith to deriue it from his side to thy conscience Say it should showre mercy yet if thou wantest faith all would fall besides thee There would be no more fauour for thee then if there was no Sauiour Let then no miseries of earth much lesse pleasures quench thy faith Satan seeing this sparke of fire kindled in thy heart would blow it out with stormes or worke thee to smother it thy selfe with vanities or to rake it vp in the dead embers of cold security but beleeue against sight and sense As Dauid prophesied that hee should be a King Eo plus habet fides meriti quo minus argumenti Faith shall haue so much the more recompence as it had the lesse argument to induce it Hope IS the sweetest friend that euer kept a distressed soule company it beguiles all the tediousnesse of the way all the miseries of our Pilgrimage Iam mala finissem letho sed eredula vitam Spes fouet melius cras foresemper ait Therefore dum spiro spero sayes the Heathen but dum expiro spero sayes the Christian. The one whilest I liue I hope the other when I dye I hope so Iob I will hope in thee though thou killest ●ee It tels the soule such sweet stories of the succeeding ioyes what comforts there bee in heauen what peace what ioy what triumphes mariage-songs and Halleluiahs there are in that Country whether shee is trauelling that shee goes merrily away with her present burden It holds the head whilst it takes and giues invisible drinke to the thirsty conscience It is a liberty to them that are in prison and the sweetest Physicke to the sicke Saint Paul calles it an Anchor Let the windes blow and the stormes beat and the waues swell yet the Anchor stayes the shippe It breakes through all difficulties and makes way for the soule to follow it It teacheth Abraham to expect fruit from a withered stocke and Ioseph in a dungeon to looke for the Sunne and Starres obeysance It counsels a man as Esdras did the woman that hauing lost her sonne would needs dye languishing in the disconsolate fields Goe thy way into the City to thine husband Mourne not wretch for the losse of some worldly and perishing delight sit not downe and die though the fruit of thy wombe bee swallowed into the earth But goe home to the citie the City of mercy to thine husband euen thy husband Iesus Christ let him comfort thee This is the voyce of hope Though misery be present comfort absent though through the dimme and waterish humor of thy heart thou canst spie no deliuerance yet such is the nature of Hope that futura facta dicit It speakes of future things as if they were present Rom. 8. Wee are saued by hope Yet sic liberati vt adhuc speranda sit haereditas postea possidenda Nunc habemius ius adrem nondum inre Wee haue our inheritance in hope which giues vs the right of the substance though not the substance of the right assurance of the possession though not possession of the thing assured This tels vs that Nemo valde dolebit diu no man should grieue much and long God making our misery aut tolerabilem aut breuem eyther sufferable or short These are the comforts of Hope Now that you may not bee deceyued there is as I sayde before of Faith a thing like Hope which is not it There is a bold and presumptuous Hope an ignorant security and vngrounded perswasion the very illusion of the Diuell who when hee cannot preuaile with downe-right euill cozens with the shadowes of goodnesse that how wickedly and wretchedly soeuer a man shall liue though hee sucke the poisonous dugs of lust though hee surres himselfe warme with poore mens hearts though hee forbids his braines as on couenant one sober houre in the yeaae to thinke of heauen though hee thirst for carowses of bloud though he striues to powder a whole Kingdome with the cornes of death and massacre though hee carries halfe a dozen impropriate Churches on his sacrilegious backe though hee out-thunder heauen with blasphemies though hee trample vnder his profane foote the precious bloud of Gods sonne yet still hee hopes to bee saued by the mercy of God But wee will sooner cast pearles to swine and bread to dogges then the comforts of Sion to such Wee say not Reioyce tremble but tremble without reioycing Wee sing not to them with the Lord is mercy that hee might bee feared but with the Lord is iudgement and vengeance with him is plague and pestilence storme and tempest horrour and anguish indignation and wrath that hee may bee feared Against this Hope wee shut vp the bosome of consolation and the promise of safety by the merites of Christ and so farre as wee are charged the verie gates of euerlasting life There is an Hope sober faithfull well grounded well guarded well assured This is like a house built on a rocke The rocke is Gods promised mercy the building Hope in Christ it is as it were moted or intrenched about with his bloud bulwarked and rampirde with the Sacraments assured by the sweet testimonie of Gods Spirit to the Conscience knowne by the Charity of the Inhabitants for it keeps bread for the hungrie clothes for the naked entertainment for

resemblance of the Trinity vncreate For as there the Sonne is begotten of the Father and the holy Ghost proceedes from them both so heere a true faith begets a constant hope and from them proceedes Charity Thus is Gods Temple built in our hearts sayth August The foundation whereof is Faith Hope the erection of the wals Charity the perfection of the roofe In the godly all these three are vnited together cannot bee sundred Wee beleeue in Gods mercy wee hope for his mercy and we loue him for his mercy Faith sayes there are good things prepared Hope sayes they are prepared for me Charity sayes I endevour to walke worthy of them So that what good Faith beleeues shall bee Hope expects for her selfe and Charity aymes at the way to get it by keeping the commandements Faith apprehends both reward and punishment Hope onely lookes for good things for our selues Charity desires the glory of God and the good of all our Brethren The second degree giues way to the third last best the Superlatiue But the greatest of these is Charity Time will not afforde mee to answere all the obiections which subtill wits haue inconsequently deduced from these words Neyther were it to other purpose then to write Iliades after Homer they haue been so soundly and satisfyingly answered already I will only mention two and but report a responsiue Solution 1 The principall promises are made to beleeuers Whosoeuer beleeues and is baptized shall bee saued So no lesse a promise is made to Louers Rom. 8. All things shall worke together to the best to those that loue God c. God sayth the Psalmist is neere to those that call vpon him Hee is close by all those that suffer for him but he is within those that loue him Heere is Prope ●uxta Intus This same Intra within is of the highest degree 1. Ioh. 4. God is loue and hee that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him O vnspeakable felicity 2 If Charity be greater then faith then is not man iustified by faith onely Inconsequent illation Saint Paul commends not loue for the vertue of Iustification it may fayle in that particular action yet receiue no impeachment to the excellency of it By demonstration A Prince doth excell a peasant shall any man therefore inferre that hee can plow better or haue more skill in tillage A Philosopher doth excell a Mechanicke though he cannot grinde so well as a Miller or lim so cunningly as a Painter A man is better then a beast who but a mad-man will therefore conclude that hee can runne faster then a horse draw more then an oxe or carry a greater burden then an Elephant Though he fayle in these particular arts yet none will deny but hee is better then a beast The truth is that in Fàith stands originally our fellowship with God Into that hand he powreth the riches of his mercy for salvation and were the actions of Charity neuer so great and foolishly thought meritorious yet if not the effects of a true sauing Faith they are lost and a man may for his Charitie goe to the Deuill And though they would plead from the forme of the last iudgement Math. 25. that God accepts men to life for their deeds of Charitie feeding clothing releeuing Yet the Scripture fully testifies that God neither accepts these nor our selues for these further then they are the effects of a true faith Our persons being first iustified by faith in Christ then God will crowne our works Yet a Christian must worke for no nudifidian so well as no nullifidian shall be admitted into heauen Therefore sayth the Apostle Faith worketh by loue For Faith is able to iustifie of it selfe not to vorke of it selfe The hand alone can receiue an Almes but cannot cut a peece of wood without an axe or some instrument Faith is the Christians hand and can without helpe receyue Gods giuen grace into the heart but to produce the fruits of obedience and to vorke the actuall duties required it must haue an inst●ument adde Loue to it and it worketh by loue So that the one is our Iustification before God and the other our Testification before men Wherein then consists this high transcendency of Charity In two priviledges incommunicable to Faith and Hope Latitude and Perpetuity 1. For Latitude Loue is the greatest Faith and Hope are restrayned within the limits of our particular persons The iust man liues by his owne faith and hopes good to himselfe but Loue is like the Vine which God brought out of Egypt and cast out the heathen to plant it which couereth the mountaines with the shadow of the boughes spreads the branches vnto the sea and the riuers It is like the Sunne in the skie that throwes his comfortable beames vpon all and forbeares not to warme euen that earth that beareth weeds Loue extends to earth heauen In heauen it affecteth God the Maker and mover the Angels as our Guardians the triumphant Saints for their pious sanctitie On earth it imbraceth those that feare the Lord especially it wisheth conversion to those that do not it counsels the rich it comforts the poore it reverenceth superiors respecteth inferiors doth good to friends no evill to foes wisheth well to all This is the latitude of Charity The property of faith is to receyue into it selfe the property of loue to lay out it selfe to others So that faith hath but narrow limits but the extent of Loue is vniversall not bounded with the world Faith beleeues for thy selfe but Charity deriues driues the effects of thy faith to others Thy faith relieues thy self thy charity thy brother 2. For perpetvity and continuance Faith laies hold on Gods gracious promise for everlasting salvation Hope expects this with patience but when God shal fulfil his word vs with ioy then Faith shall be at an end hope at an end but Loue shal remain between God vs an everlasting bond Therefore sayth the Apostle Now abideth faith c. Now. Now three then one and that is Charity When wee haue possession of those pleasures which we hoped and beleeued what longer vse is there of Faith or Hope But our loues shall not end with our liues Wee shall euerlastingly loue our our Maker Saviour Sanctifier Angels Saints where no discontent shall breed any iarre in our Halleluiahs If the vse of loue bee so comfortable on earth what may wee thinke it will be in heaven Thus sayth Chrysost Onely loue is eternall Now Faith and Hope hold vp the hands of Charity as Aaron and Hur helde vp the hands of Moses but then their vse and office shall cease Tunc non erit spes quando erit spes Hope shall not bee when the thing hoped is Hope shall bring in possession possession shall thrust out Hope Therefore sayth Augustine is Charity greater Et si non propter eminentiam tamen propter permanentiam If not for the excellency yet for