The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…

2 The second Vial is Heresy: a dangerous water, because it soon tickles the brain, and makes the mind drunk. This Sin robs God of his Truth: There are many of these Thieves, though contrary among themselves; whose opinions are as cross one to another, as Samsons Foxes, but their tails meet, to scatter the Fire of dissension in the Church: no Lawyers wrangle more in public; nor more lovingly feast one another in private, with the gains of their dissimulation: How bitterly the Brownists on the right hand, the Papists on the left, rail at each other; how friendly agree they, like Herod and Pilate, to afflict Christ? how in effect do they sing both in one tune, to build up D••otion with Ignorance, to wrangle with the Prince for his Supremacy?

2 The second Viall is Heresie: a dangerous water, because it soone tickles the braine, and makes the minde drunke. This Sinne robbes God of his Truth: There are many of these Theeues, though contrary among themselues; whose opinions are as crosse one to another, as Sampsons Foxes, but their tailes meet, to scatter the Fire of dissention in the Church: no Lawyers wrangle more in publike; nor more louingly feast one another in priuate, with the gaines of their dissimulation: How bitterly the Brownists on the right hand, the Papists on the left, raile at each other; how friendly agree they, like Herod and Pilate, to afflict Christ? how in effect doe they sing both in one tune, to build vp D••otion with Ignorance, to wrangle with the Prince for his Supremacie?

In elder times, you had Cerinthus and Arrius robbing Christ of his Divinity: Moniche and Marcion of his Humanity; the Nestorians, of the Unity of both ⟨p. 49⟩natures in one Person. They are dead: oh, bury them, bury them: let their Heresies rot. Alas, how are the spirits of them all, by a kind of transanimation, come into the Romists? Christ is, there, robbed of his Truth of his garments, of his peace, of his life, as well as at Jerusalem; and that without show of being his enemies; Spoliastis amici, You are my friends, yet rob me. Bones rob Christ of his adoration: stones of his Prayers: the Pope of his power. Remission of sins, validity of merits, ease of pains, the Pope must give; who would give the world, that he had them for himself. Too much shall be given to the name of Jesus, more then he would have; that a wicked man shall by it cast out Devils: to whom if the Devils reply not, as they did once to the audacious Sons of Sceva;