Trinity College

Adams studied here as an undergraduate

2 Peter 2:1 Link

You can find a nice quotation from Adams on 2 Peter 2:1 here

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Hypocrisy

Hypocrites are certain to miscarry at last; so true is that proverb 'Frost and fraud have dirty ends' 153

Laziness

Deny sloth not only continuance, but countenance 155

Judgement
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. Your indignities done to your spiritual physicians shall sleep in the dust with your ashes, but stand up against your souls in judgment. 161
Alas! That the farther end of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends 161

Justification and good deeds

Out of the point of justification works cannot be sufficiently commended; into the cause of justification they must not be admitted. 162
How many on account of free tongues have chained feet 168

Life

He that will be old long must be old while he is young. Express the sobriety of age in thy youth, that the remembrance of thy youth may sweeten the bitterness of thy age. A young saint, an old angel. So then let us spend our life in the thriftiness of grace; that when youth hath ended infancy, age ended youth and death ended all, we may be young again in heaven. 169 (expanded)

Patience

Patience to the soul is as bread to the body … we eat bread with all our meats, both for health and relish; bread with flesh, bread with fish, bread with broths and fruits. Such is ptience to every virtue; we must hope with patience, and pray in patience, and love with patience, and whatsoever good thing we do, let it be done in patience. 204

Patience must not be an inch shorter than affliction. 205

Prosperity

Who seeth not that prosperity increaseth iniquity? And where is more want is less wantonness. 228

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Here are some more Adams quotes. The numbers again refer to pages in A Puritan Golden Treasury.

Divisions

Better a holy discord than a profane concord. 61

Drunkenness and excess

While the wine is in thy hand, thou art a man; when it is in thine head, thou art become a beast. 82

To rot and to riot, differ but one small letter 98

Faith Our heavenly king is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping penitence pleaseth him; charity in the height and humility in the dust pleaseth him; but none of them are welcome to him without faith, as nothing can please him without Christ. There is none that dares venture into his presence without faith; she is that Esther to which God holds out the golden sceptre. Adorn thy soul with this grace; "so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty." 102 (expanded)

It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe. 103

Faith is Rachel's humour: "Give me children or else I die." 104

The want of good works makes faith sick; evil works kill her outright 126

Good deeds are such things that no man is saved for them, nor without them. 127

Naked faith is no faith.

1611

The first edition of the Authorised or King James Bible appeared in 1611 when Adams was in his late twenties.

On Sin

This comment on Psalm 116:6 We have sinned with our fathers is quoted by Spurgeon in his Treasury of David
Let us look a little further back, to find the age of sin; even as far as the original, from whence comes all the copy of imitation. Be they never so new in act, they are old in example: "We have sinned with our fathers." God tells them they had rebelled of old; "As your fathers did, so do ye" (Ac 8:51). Antiquity is no infallible argument of goodness: though Tertullian says the first things were the best things; and the less they distanced from the beginning, the poorer they were; but he must be understood only of holy customs. For iniquity can plead antiquity: he that commits a new act of murder finds it old in the example of Cain; drunkenness may be fetched from Noah; contempt of parents from Ham; women's lightness from the daughters of Lot. There is no sin but hath white hairs upon it, and is exceeding old. But let us look further back yet, even to Adam; there is the age of sin. This is that St. Paul calls the old man; it is almost as old as the root, but older than all the branches. Therefore our restitution by Christ to grace is called the new man.

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The following quotations were found here. "Some have a true zeal of a false religion, and some a false zeal of a true religion." Thomas Adams in Heaven made sure "It is one thing for thee to possess sin, another thing for sin to possess thee." Thomas Adams in The Black Saint or The Apostate "Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?" Thomas Adams in The Victory of Patience "Nothing but eternity can make either joy or sorrow absolute." Thomas Adams in The Victory of Patience "His goodness without His greatness might fail us; His greatness without His goodness would terrify us." Thomas Adams in The Sacrifice of Thankfulness These are from The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (Martin H Manser) The Law - The law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us. Marriage - As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Mercy - He that demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Satan - If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse. Trinity - It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity.

Also note Heresy - Heresy is - Humano sensu electa, Scripturae sacrae contraria, palam docta, pertinaciter, defensa, - begot of a man’s brain, contrary to the Holy Scriptures, openly taught, and peremptorily defended.

Humility - In Spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Satan - Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands; but Satan his millions. Sin, death - Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.