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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.…
The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2. The second service, 3. The breaking up of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Physic from heaven / published by Thomas Adams ...The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Plead not, that they are not stolen, because conveyed by the Ministers consent; for the right is originally in God. Spoliastis me: You have robbed me: me, saith the Lord. The Incumbent consenting is not robbed, God is. They zealously require a learned Ministry, when themselves embezzle the rewards of learning: they complain of an ignorant, not of a beggarly Clergy. They are content, we should stand in the Pulpit, so long as they may sit in a Tithe-shock; and seem wonderfully affected with the oraculous voice of their Minister, but the creaking noise of a Tithe-Cart into their own Barn is better Music. Oh, the fearful cry of this Sin in the ears of God against this Land! he hath sprinkled some drops of his angry Vial for it: Droughts, blastings, witherings, are but his Distringis: he destroys all, because we will not pay some: Si domino decimam non dederis, ad decimam reverteris: He doth justly take away the nine,1 when we deny him the Tenth: Indeed I confess, that many an Eliashib compacts with Tobiah, 2to steal holy things: a Cnosticke Patron, a Paphian Priest: so the one have ease, let the other take benefit. Tobiah must have the Tithe-corn, the glebe land, and perhaps the very house for a Dairy, and his Cozen Eli•sh•b shall have the tithe Geese, and the Eggs at Easter. Shall not the Lord visit for such wickedness as this? 3shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation?
Plead not, that they are not stollen, because conueyed by the Ministers consent; for the right is originally in God. Spoliastis me: You haue robbed me: me, saith the Lord. The Incumbent consenting is not robbed, God is. They zealously require a learned Ministrie, when themselues imbezzell the rewards of learning: they complaine of an ignorant, not of a beggerly Clergie. They are content, wee should stand in the Pulpit, so long as they may sit in a Tith-shocke; and seeme wonderfully affected with the oraculous voice of their Minister, but the creaking noise of a Tith-Cart into their owne Barne is better Musicke. Oh, the fearefull cry of this Sinne in the eares of God against this Land! he hath sprinkled some drops of his angry Viall for it: Droughts, blastings, witherings, are but his Distringis: he destroyes all, because we will not pay some: Si domino decimam non dederis, ad decimam reuerteris: He doth iustly take away the nine,