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Drawing attention to doctrinal puritan Thomas Adams (1583-1652) described by Robert Southey as "the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians". D. Don Kistler Puritan Board Sophomore. Jun 8, 2006 #4 Adams is quite good, and … Then, he proceeds to show its inadequacy. Alleine, Richard: [1610-81] Heaven Opened. Adams is very popular, but his style is often very rugged. Moreover, he was a preacher of an extinct order; for sermons on manners have now gone quite out of date, and his were such. Thomas Adams Quotes Page 1 of 4 Thomas Adams 1583-1652 Thomas Adams was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. (III, 202.) Had Hooker been under the necessity of delivering his Ecclesiastical Polity in discourses at St. Paul’s Cross, had George Herbert been a city preacher, or Sir Thomas Browne one of the divines of his day, in no instance should we have had the rich, and rare, and peculiar gems they have contributed to our language. (II, 72.) Ralph . What he does deny is the sufficiency of common grace for salvation. As Adams believed every man to be born into an estate of sin, and the natural effects of sin to be a corruption of the whole man causing him to stand guilty before God as a transgressor of the law, so did he hold eternal death to be the ultimate effect of sin as a penalty to satisfy the divine justice of God against whom all sins are committed. Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818–February 7, 1905) was an American inventor. Want of a nail. In emphasizing the necessity of faith alone in Christ for salvation, he says: "The law finds no works righteous." In 1871, he patented a machine that could mass produce chewing gum from chicle. I first came across Adams when I was given a three volume set of his works as a birthday present. Adams, Thomas: [c.1612-53] The Sermons of Thomas Adams the Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians. Adams later worked with businessman William Wrigley, Jr. to establish the American Chicle Company, which experienced great success in the chewing gum industry. Thus, the portrait of the inconstant and unstable man, like many another such a sketch, justifies this remark :— Puritan Adams, no doubt, suffered by being what he must have been, a popular preacher. Adams did not deny the non-elect to be benefactors of common grace or that they were recipients of some of the blessings God imparts indiscriminately to mankind.
I first came across Adams when I was given a three volume set of his works as a birthday present. With which puritan can you compare Thomas Adams ? V. VirginiaHuguenot Puritanboard Librarian. (I, 129.) He speaks to the populace, and his fancies and conceits, his anagrams and conundrums of speech, are frequently a snare to him throughout his discourses. (III, 208, 209.) Popular Posts. He affirms that "it is of God that a sinner opens his heart to God" (II, 38) and "We as good [well] have no Saviour as not to have him our Saviour and ours he cannot be unless God."
He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; a Calvinist in theology, he is not accurately described as a Puritan. The Three Divine Sisters, Faith, Hope and Charity. The Works of Thomas Adams, Volume Three, contains sermons from texts in the New Testament, Meditations on the Creed, God's anger and man's comfort.
In his sermon "Heaven Gate" or "The Passage to Paradise," Adams speaks of grace as the only gate to eternal life: "no passage to glory but by grace," (II, 8l.) All others, he considered as falling under God's act of reprobation as being passed by in his special grace and punished by eternal death for their sins as a manifestation of justice. God's special grace, as an attribute from which proceeds the whole program for the redemption of the elect among sinful men is the key-stone of Adams' soteriology which rejects the possibility of man's attaining salvation on the basis of merit or by keeping the law of God. Ambrose, Isaac: [1604-1663/64] Ames, William: [1576-1633] Narrative of his exemplary Life and Death of William Ames. (III, 205). Instances of bad taste are abundant in his writings; are they not also said to be abundant in the writings of men of his times, far greater than he? All resources for sale on this website, with the exception of Scottish Metrical Psalms MP3s, are available on the Puritan Hard Drive . In this connection, it is to be examined as the positive aspect of the doctrine of predestination which relates to the purpose of God respecting his moral creatures in pre-determining their final end. Univer...28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, etc We come to the question, Whether to be written in heaven be an infallible assuran... 99:1 Holy arm . "There, is, indeed, a promise of life, but, withal, a condition which we were never able to perform, 'Do this, and live; this we have not done; therefore the law condemns us."