ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655), English Puritan divine, held churches at Willington in Bedfordshire, Wingrave in Bucks, and then in London. His "occasionally" printed sermons, collected in 1629, show him to have been a brilliant and witty preacher. Southey, indeed, calls him "the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians." His numerous works show great learning in the classics and the fathers of the church, and abound in all kinds of stories and aphorisms.
See the edition of his works in J. P. Nichol's Puritan Divines, by J. Angus and T. Smith (1862).