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Concluding Remarks Is this site advocating that we should we all rush to buy copies of Adams’ works for ourselves and for others? Should we be laying Bunyan, Goodwin, Owen and Watson on one side and taking up Adams? It probably would not do us any great harm, but Adams’ strength is in his aphorisms and illustrations not in his systematic treatment of doctrines and passages of Scripture. We would probably be wise to buy the Commentary on 2 Peter before the sermons. The sermons need to be put under a gentle heat until the aphorisms are distilled and then presented in something of the style found in I D E Thomas’s collection The Puritan Golden Treasury. This may sound sacrilegious but when we consider the wealth of talent that followed Adams, it should be no surprise to us that, stood on his shoulders, they produced superior work. Rather than completely neglecting Adams, however, let us make what use of him we can. Hunt down his The three divine sisters and his Crucifix or some of the other items mentioned and available through this site and store up his axioms as best you know how and let us be thankful for a man of God who preached faithfully and the power of the Spirit, who served his own generation and was then gathered to his fathers in glory.