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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.
These are the sins, that immediately rob God, fitly called by our whorish Sorceress, Stolen waters; which shall never be carried away without account. The second sort of Stolen waters are those sins, which mediately rob God, immediately our Brethren; depriving them of some comfort or right, which the inviolable Law of God, hath interested them to: for what the Law of God, of Nature, of Nations, hath made ours, cannot be extorted from us, without Stealth; and may be (even in most strict terms) called Stolen waters.
These are the sinnes, that immediately robbe God, fitly called by our whorish Sorceresse, Stollen waters; which shall neuer be carried away without account. The second sort of Stollen waters are those sinnes, which mediately rob God, immediately our Brethren; depriuing them of some comfort or right, which the inuiolable Law of God, hath interrested them to: for what the Law of God, of Nature, of Nations, hath made ours, cannot bee extorted from vs, without Stealth; and may bee (euen in most strict tearmes) called Stollen waters.
1. Here (fitly) Irreverence is served in first: a water of Stealth, that robs man of that right of honour, wherewith God hath invested him. Even nAbimelech, a King, a Gentle King, reverenced Abraham: even stately oHerod poor John Baptist. Yes, let reverence be given to Superiority, if it be built on the bases of worthiness, and to Age, if it be pfound in the ways of righteousness: Indeed, it should be so, that Seniors annis, should be Saniores animis, and praefectus perfectus; that eminency of place and of virtue should concur, that Greatness and Goodness should dwell together: but the conscience of reverence is fetch• ⟨p. 57⟩