Thomas Adams

“They advance the colours of Satan, blasphemies and lies, in the very face of God; as if they sent challenges to heaven, and dared their Maker to the combat.”

“How, to the life, doth he explain the mercy of God, and the misery of man, in the lost sheep, in the lost groat, in the lost son!”

“The pangs of the first death are pleasures in respect of the second.”

“Wretched priests, that are indeed the worst diseases; allowing in precept, and approving in practice, the riot of drunkenness, or the heat of lustfulness, or the baseness of covetise, or the frenzy of contention.”

“They desire flesh, and receive quails; they beg bread, and have manna.”

“If you welcome repentance, knocking at your door from God, it shall knock at God's door of mercy for you.”