The Works of Thomas Adams Being the Sum of His Sermons Meditations And Other
The Works of Thomas Adams Being the Sum of His Sermons Meditations And Other
Thomas Adams
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If ye offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil?' The Lord's sacri- fice must be fat and fair ; not a lean, scraggling, starved creature. Paid beseeeheth the Eomans that they would ' present themselves a living ' or quick ' sacrifice to God, ' Rom. Xii. 1. When infirmities have crazed it, and age almost razed it, then to offer it — alas ! it is not a living, but a dying ; not a quick, but a sick sacrifice. This must be a whole and holy oblation. Of the sacrijicer. The life and soul of a sacri...fice is not the outward action, but the inward affection of the heart. Mens cujusque, is est quisque, — As the mind is, so is the man ; as the man is, so is his sacrifice. If we bring our sheep to God's altar, and them alone, we had as good left them behind us as an unprofitable carriage : Micah vi. 6, ' Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? With burnt-ofierings, and calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or wdth ten thousand rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul V No ; learn another oblation : ' God hath shewed thee, man, what is good ; and what doth he require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God V The poet could ask the priest, In templo quid facit auruvi ?
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