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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.
2. Murder usurps the second room; a red Water, that robs man of his life: whither they be Popish commissions to cut throats, for the Whore of Babylon can drink nothing but blood; or the monstrous illuminations of the Anabaptists, deriving revelation from the spirit of horrid murder; that the brother should cut off the brothers head, by a command from Heaven, the Father & Mother standing by: Luther calls this a gross Devil:1 or the sudden quarrels of our age, where evidences of pusillanimity▪ or (at best) inconsiderate fury, are produced as arguments of Valour: A cross word is ground enough for a challenge: and what issue hath streamed from these Duels, who can think and not quake? vThe Land is defiled with blood; not shed by an alien hand, God hath been content, (talem nobis avertere pestem) to free us from that plague: but civill, uncivil broils. We fall out for feathers; some lie dead in the Chanel, whiles they stood too much for the wall: others sacrifice their hearts blood for the love of an Harlot: Not to pledge a health, is ⟨p. 59⟩cause enough to loose health and life too. Oh, who shall wash our Land from these aspersions of blood? Murder is but Mans-slaughter, and Mans-slaughter no more then dog-slaughter. Parce civium sanguini, should be our condition of life, as it is a sanction of nature, (to spare the blood of Citizens, connatural, collateral, connationall with our selves:) but now it is not spared (sanguini vel civium vel sanctorum) to spill the blood of either Citizens or Saints: yet precious in the sight of the Lord is the blood of his Saints, when the blood of his enemies shall not be impunely shed.
2. Murder vsurpes the second roome; a red Water, that robbes man of his life: whither they be Popish commissions to cut throates, for the Whore of Babilon can drinke nothing but blood; or the monstrous illuminations of the Anabaptists, deriuing reuelation from the spirit of horrid murder; that the brother should cut off the brothers head, by a command from Heauen, the Father & Mother standing by: Luther cals this a grosse Deuill:1