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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.
This is profaneness: The world is rank & manured with sin: Atheism grows up as a Tree, Error and Ignorance are the Leaves, Profaneness and Rebellion the Fruit, and the end is the hAxe and the Fire. Their best is verbal Devotion, actual Abomination. Diu• dunt opera a fide, & utrumque perimitur. They separate works from faith: they divide the child and kill it. Works are dead without Faith: and Faith is not alive without Works. They take away that visible distinction betwixt Christians and Infidels, whiles they live not as honest men. Oh, that I could cut this point short, and yet keep my discourse but somewhat even with the subject: but the world drinks too greedily of these profane waters, which rob God of ⟨p. 55⟩his glory. Most men are no longer Tenants to the Devil, and retailers of his Wares, but proprietaries; (perverted and perverse persons) they strive to be as deep sharers as himself. Machiavell will no longer work Journey-work with the Devil, he will now cut out the garment of damnation himself. The Vices of these men are so monstrous, that they no less benumb in all good men the tenderness of affection, then in themselves the sense of all humanity. Vox faucibus haeret. It is a shame to utter, an amazement to hear, yet they blush not to commit such execrable impieties. Impudence is only in fashion, and there is no forehead held so graceful, as that the Prophet calls graceless, an iHarlots forehead, that cannot blush. Swearing swaggers out admonition: drunkenness drinks down sorrow and penitence: Usury flouts at Hell.
This is profanenesse: The world is ranke & manured with sinne: Atheisme growes vp as a Tree, Errour and Ignorance are the Leaues, Profanenesse and Rebellion the Fruit, and the end is the hAxe and the Fire. Their best is verball Deuotion, actuall Abomination. Diu• dunt opera a fide, & vtrumque perimitur. They seperate workes from faith: they diuide the childe and kill it. Workes are dead without Faith: and Faith is not aliue without Workes. They take away that visible distinction betwixt Christians and Infidels, whiles they liue not as honest men. Oh, that I could cut this point short, and yet keepe my discourse but somewhat euen with the subiect: but the world drinkes too greedily of these profane waters, which rob God of