Spurgeon quoting Adams

In his Lectures to My Students Spurgeon has a chapter of Anecdotes from the pulpit (Chapter 25). Here is his section on Adams:

Thomas Adams the Conforming Puritan whose sermons are full of rugged force and profound meaning, never hesitated to insert a story when be felt that it would enforce his teaching. His starting-point is ever some Biblical sentence or scriptural history; and this he works out with much much elaboration bringing to it all the treasures of his mind. As Stowe says, ‘Fables, anecdotes, classical poetry, gems from the fathers and other old writers are scattered over almost every page”. His anecdotes are usually rough-and-ready ones, and might be compared to those of Latimer, only they are not so genial; their humour is generally grim and caustic. The following may serve as fair specimens:

THE HUSBAND AND HIS WITTY WIFE
The husband told his wife that he had one ill quality, he was given to be angry without cause. She replied, she would keep him from that fault, for she would give him cause enough. It is the folly of some that they will be offended without cause, to whom the world promises that they shall have cause enough. “In the world ye shall have tribulation.”

THE SERVANT AND THE SERMON
It is ordinary with many to commend the lecture to others’ ears, but few commend it to their own hearts. It is morally true what the Christian Tell-truth relates: A servant coming from church, praiseth the sermon to his master. He asks him what was the text. Nay, quoth the servant, it was begun before I came in. What then was his conclusion? He answered, I came out before it was done. But what said he in the midst? Indeed I was asleep in the midst. Many crowd to get into the church, but make no room for the sermon to get into them.

THE PICTURE OF A HORSE
One charged a painter to draw him equum volitantem, a trotting or prancing horse; and he (mistaking the word) drew him equum volutantem, a wallowing or tumbling horse, with his heels upward. Being brought home, and the bespeaker blaming his error; I would have him prancing and you have made him tumbling. If that be all, quoth the painter, it is but turning the picture wrong side uppermost, and you have your desire. Thus in their quodlibetical discounts they can but turn the lineaments, and the matter is as they would have it. I speak not this to disgrace all their learning, but their fruitless, needless disputes and arguments, who find themselves a tongue, where the Scripture allows them none.

THE PIRATE
As when the desperate pirate, ransacking and rifling a bottom, was told by the master that though no law could touch him for the present he should answer it at the day of judgement; replied, Nay, if I may stay so long ere I come to it, I will take thee and thy vessel too. A conceit wherewith too many land-thieves, oppressors, flatter themselves in their hearts, though they dare not utter it with their lips.