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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

Houses that the young Maister is suffered to liue like an Esau till hee hath hunted away his Patrimony which scarce lastes the Sonne so many yeares as the Father that got it had Letters in his name But what cares hee for the Birthright when all is gone hee like Esau can liue by the Sword Hee will fetch Gold from the Indies but hee will haue it But hee might haue sau'd that iourney and kept what hee had at home If the Vsurer hath bought it though for Porredge hee will not part with it againe though they weepe Teares It is better to want superfluous meanes then necessary moderation Inse magnarunt summisque negatum est Stare diu especially when the huge Colosses haue not sound feete Vast Desires no lesse then Buildings where Foundations are not firme sinke by their owne magnitude And there comes often Fire Ex Rhamno out of the Bramble that burnes vp the Men of Shechem and sets on fire the Eagles nest in the Cedars Psal. 37. Parumiusto A litle that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked And a plaine Iacob will prosper better then a prophane Hunting Esau. Let a man beginne then with God Wherewithall shall a young man clense his way by taking heed thereunto according to thy word Thus literally Let vs now come to some morall application to our selues Hunting is for the most part taken in the holy Scripture in the worst sence So Gen. 10. Nimrod was a Hunter euen to a Prouerbe and that Before the Lord as without feare of his Maiestie Now if it were so hatefull to hunt Beastes what is it to Hunt-men The wicked oppressors of the world are here Typed and Taxed who employ both Arme and Braine to Hunt the poore out of their Habitations and to drinke the Bloud of the oppressed Herein obserue the Persons Hunted Maner of Hunting Hounds The Poore Are their Prev any man that either their witte or violence can practise on Not so much Beggars yet they would be content to Hunt them also out of their Coasts but those that haue somewhat worth their Gaping after and whose estates may Minister some Gobbets to their Throtes Aquila non Capit muscas the Eagles hunt no Flyes so long as their be Foules in the Ayre The Commonaltie that by great Labour haue gotten a little stay for themselues these they Hunt and lay along and Prey on their prostrate Fortunes If they be Tenantes woe is them Fines Rents Carriagas slaueries shall drinke vp the Sweat of their Browes There is law against Coyners and it is made treason iustly to stampe the Kings Figure in Mettalles But what is Mettall to a Man the Image of God And we haue those that coyne Money on the poores Sinnes Traytors they are to the King of Kings The whole Countrey shall feele their hunting They hunt Commons into Seueralles Tilled grounds into Pastures that the Gleaning is taken from the Poore which God commaunded to be left them and all succour except they can grase in the High-wayes And to others to whom their Rage cannot extend their Craft shall for they will hoyst them in the Subsidies or ouercharge them for the Warres or vexe them with Quarrels in Law or perhaps their Seruants shall in direct tearmes beat them Naboth shall hardly keepe his Vinyard if any nooke of it disfigures Ahabs Lordship If they can not buy it on their owne price they will to Law for it wherein they respect no more then to haue a●sam querelae a colourable occasion of contention for they will so wearie him that at last hee shall be forced to sell it But Tully sayes of that sale Ereptio non emptio est It is an Extorting not a Purchasing Thus the Poore man is the Beast they hunt who must rise early rest late eate the Bread of sorrow sitte with many a hungry meale perhaps his Children crying for Food whiles all the fruite of his paines is serued in to Nimrods Table Complaine of this whiles you will yet as the Orator sayd of Verres Pecuniosus nescit damnari Indeed a Monny-man may not be damnified but hee may be damned For this is a Crying sinne and the wakned eares of the Lord will heare it neither shall his prouoked hands forbeare it Si tacuerint pauperes loquentur Lapides If the Poore should hold their peace the very Stones would speake The Fines Rackinges Inclosures Oppressions Vexations will cry to God for vengeance The Stone will cry out of the Wall and the beame out of the Timber shall answere it You see the Beastes they hunt Not Foxes not Wolues nor Boares Bulles nor Tygers It is a certaine obseruation no Beast hunts the owne kind to deuoure it Now if these should prosecute Wolues Foxes c. they should then hunt their owne kind for they are these themselues or rather worse then these because here Homo homini Lupus But though they are Men they hunt and by nature of the same kind they are not so by qualitie For they are Lambes they persecute In them there is Blood and Flesh and Fleece to be had and therefore on these doe they gorge themselues In them there is weake Armour of defence against their cruelties therefore ouer these they may domineere I will speake it boldly There is not a mighty Nimrod in this Land that dares hunt his equall But ouer his inferiour Lambe hee insultes like a young Nero. Let him be graced by High ones and hee must not be saluted vnder twelue score off In the Countrie hee proues a Termagaunt his very Scowle is a Prodegie and breeds an Earthquake Hee would be a Caesar and taxe all It is well if hee prooue not a Caniball Onely Macro salutes Seianus so long as hee is in Tiberius his fauour Cast him from that Pinacle and the Dogge is ready to deuoure him You heare the Obiect they hunt attende the Manner And this you shall finde as Esau's to consist in two things Force and Fraude They are not onely Hunters but cunning Hunters 1. For their Force they are Robusti latrones and haue a violent impetuous imperious Hunting Desolation and destruction are in their Pathes We may say of them as Tertullian sayd of the Montanists Nontam Laborant vt aedificarent sua quam vt destruerent aliena They seeke not somuch their owne encreasing as the depopulation of others Philosophers hold the world to be composed of three concurrent principles Matter Forme and Priuation holding the last to be rather a principle of Transmutation then of Establishment Oppressours besides the Matter which is the Common-wealth and the Forme which is Iustice haue deuised to make necessarie also Priuation There are sinnes which striue onely Intra orbem suum urere which haue no further latitude then the Conscience of the Committer They are Priuate and Domesticall sinnes the sting whereof dies in the proprietary Such are Prodigality Enuie Sloth Pride Though euill example may

as may procure him a place in the celestiall habitations Grudge not him a portion of thy temporall wealth that is able to minister euerlasting comfort to thy conscience Thou art no looser if thou mayest exchange earth for heauen For the Blessing WHat hath secure Esau lost if hauing solde the Birthright he may reserue the Blessing Behold of this hee assureth himselfe his Father hath sent him for venison that his soule might blesse him To hunting hee is gone in haste meaning to recouer that againe by his owne venison which hee had lost by his brothers pottage Isaac being now blinde in his eyes but yet blinder in his affections forgetting what decree and sentence God had formerly passed of his two sonnes for some temporall regard doth fauour Esaeu and intends to bequeath vnto him that spirituall and happy legacie of the Blessing God had said that the elder shall serue the younger yet forgetfull Isaac purposeth to blesse his first borne Esau. How easie is it euen for a Saint to be transported with naturall affections hee could not but remember that himselfe though the yoonger was preferred to his elder brother Ishmael hee knew that Gods commaund preuailed with his Father Abraham aboue nature when hee bound him for a sacrifice he saw Esau lewdly matched with the daughters of Heathens yet hee will now thinke on nothing but Esau is my first borne and if it bee possible hee will poure the benediction vpon a wrong head But God is often better to vs then wee would and with his preuenting grace stoppes the precipitation of erring nature So sweete is the ordination of the Diuine prouidence that we shall not doe what we would but what wee ought and by deceiuing vs turnes our purposed euill into euentuall good We are made to do that good which wee not intended God hath ordained the superioritie to the yonger hee will therefore contriue for him the Blessing Whatsoeuer Isaac affected this God will haue effected To bring the Lords will to passe there neuer wanted meanes Sinnefull man may haue his hand in this the iust de●ree of God stands vntouched He determined the death of his Sonne without fauour to their guilt that murderd him The affections of Parents are heere diuided Isaac loues Esau and Rebeca Iacob this difference shall make way to the fulfilling of the Promise Neyther parent neglected eyther sonne but Rebeccah remembred the Lords purpose better then Isaac Neyther is it enough what Ambrose heereon saith Mater affectum pater iudicium indicat mater circa minorem tenera pictate propendit pater circa seniorem naturae honorificentiam seruat The mother shewes affection the father iudgement shee tenderly loues the yonger hee giues the honour of nature to the elder Nay rather the mother shewes iudgement and the father affection For what was Iacob to Rebecca more then Esau or why should shee not rather loue her first borne It is God that inclines the mothers loue to the yoonger against nature because the father affects the elder against the promise Heereupon shee will rather deceiue her owne husband then he shall deceiue his owne chosen sonne of the decreed blessing The wife will be subtle when the husband is partiall her honest fraud shall answere his forgetfull indulgence Isaac would turne Esau into Iacob Rebecca doth turne Iacob into Esau. The discourse or contemplation of the prouident mother and her happy sonnes passages in this action I finde set downe by so diuine and accurate a pen that despairing of any tolerable imitation I shall without distaste to the Reader or imputation to my selfe deliuer it in his owne expresse words Rebecca presuming vpon the Oracle of God and her husbands simplicity dares be Iacobs suretie for the danger his counseller for the carriage of the businesse his cooke for the dyet yea dresses both the meate and the man And now puts dishes into his hand words into his mouth the garments on his backe the goates haire vppon the open parts of his body and sends him in thus furnished for the blessing Standing no doubt at the doore to see how well her lesson was learned how well her deuice succeeded And if olde Isaac should by any of his senses haue discerned the guile shee had soone stept in and vndertaken the blame and vrged him with that knowne will of God concerning Iacobs dominion and Esaus seruitude which either age or affection had made him forget And now she wisheth that shee could borrow Esaus tongue as well as his garments that she might securely deceiue all the senses of him which had suffered himselfe more dangerously deceiued with his affection But this is past her remedy her son must name himselfe Esau with the voyce of Iacob We see the proceeding it is now examinable whether this doth not somewhat impeach the credite of Iacobs Plaine-Dealing There haue beene vndertakers of Iacobs iustification or at least excusation in this fact Let vs heare what they say 1. Gregorie thus excuseth it that Iahob did not steale the Blessing by fraud but sibi debitam accepit tooke it as a due to himselfe in respect that the primogeniture was formerly deuolued to him The truth is he that ought the Birthright might iustly chalenge the Blessing but this doth not wholly excuse the fact 2. Chrysostome thus mitigates it that non studio nocendi contexit fraudem hee did not deceiue with a minde to hurt but onely in respect of the promise of God But this is not sufficient for there was an intention of hurt both to Isaac in deceiuing him and to Esau in depriuing him of the Blessing But whatsoeuer may bee pleaded for the defence of Iacobs dissimulation in outward gesture there is no apologie for the words of his tongue The meaning of the speach is in the speaker therefore his tongue cannot be guiltlesse when it goes against his conscious heart but the meaning of the gesture is in the interpreter who giues it a voluntary construction Gesture is more easily ruled then speach and it is hard if the tongue will not blabbe what a man is in spite of his habite Isaacs eyes might be deceiued they were dimme his hands by the roughnesse of the garments his nosthrills by the smell of them his palate by the sauour of the meat All these senses yeeld affiance what then shall driue Isaac to a suspition or incredulitie None but this the eare stickes at the iudgement that sayes the voyce is the voyce of Iacob To helpe forward this deceit three lies are tumbled out one in the necke of another 1. I am Esau thy first borne 2. I haue done as thou badst me 3. eate of my venison To cleare him of this sinne of lying hath beene more peremptorily vndertaken then soundly performed 1. Chrysostome with diuers others thinke that thogh he did lie hee did not sinne because hee did it by the reuelation and counsell of God So that God willing to haue the prediction fulfilled dispensing