Oh, then be ashamed, Christians, that worldlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls. -- Thomas Adams.
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ. -- Thomas Adams
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body. - THOMAS ADAMS
The Law gives menaces. the gospel gives promises. Thomas Adams
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well-being from woman.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Woman was principal in killing the first Adam, himself being accessory. But in killing the second Adam, man was the principal and woman had not a finger in it.= Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
True obedience hath no lead at its heels.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Naked faith is no faith.= Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
We know that there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it; yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Many come to these holy places, and are so transported with a desire of hearing, that they forget the fervency of praying and praising God . . . all our preaching is but to beget your praying; to instruct you to praise and worship God . . . . I complain not that our churches are auditories, but that they are not oratories; not that you come to sermons (for God’s sake, come faster), but that you neglect public prayer; as if were only God’s part to bless you, not yours to bless God. . . . Beloved, mistake not. It is not the only exercise of a Christian to hear a sermon; nor is that Sabbath well spent that despatcheth no other business for heaven . . . God’s service is not to be narrowed up in hearing, it hath greater latitude; there must be prayer, praise, adoration.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
The least faith is as precious to the believer's soul as Peter's or Paul's faith was to themselves; for it lays hold upon Christ and brings eternal salvation.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652) (On 2 Peter)
The light of nature is like a spark, the light of the gospel a lamp, the light of grace a star, but the light of glory the sun itself.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Christ is the sum of the whole Bible, prophesied, typified, prefigured, exhibited, demonstrated, to be found in every leaf, almost in every line, the Scriptures being but as it were the swaddling bands of the child Jesus.= Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Religion gives riches, and riches forgets religion . . . Thus do our affections wheel about with an unconstant motion. Poverty makes us Religious, Religion rich, and riches irreligious.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)(Diseases of the Soul: A Discourse Divine, Morall, and Physicall, (London, 1616), 24)
It is a poor worship to move our hats, and not our hearts.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
One would think that punishment should procure fear, and forgiveness love; but no man more truly loves God than he is most fearful to offend Him .... we fear thee for thy justice, and love thee for thy mercy; yea, fear thee for thy mercy, and love thee for thy justice; for thou art infinitely good in both.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Devotion without instruction winds itself into superstition.= Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Lay up in the ark of thy memory not only the pot of manna, the bread of life; but even Aaron's rod, the very scourge of correction, wherewith thou hast been bettered.- Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
Sins are so remitted as if they had never been committed.= Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
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