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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.
4. Thievery needs no more then the name, to prove it a Water of Stealth: This robs man of his goods; those temporal things, whereof God hath made him a proprietary: A sin which Usurers and Money-mongers do bitterly rail at: They that are of no religion, yet plead religion hard against Thieves: They can lay the law to them, that have no conscience themselves▪ They rob a Country, yet think themselves honest men; and would hang a poor petty robber for forty pence. Let him answer them in the Satire.
4. Theeuerie needes no more then the name, to proue it a Water of Stealth: This robbes man of his goods; those temporall things, whereof God hath made him a proprietarie: A sinne which Vsurers and Money-mongers doe bitterly raile at: They that are of no religion, yet plead religion hard against Theeues: They can lay the law to them, that haue no conscience themselues▪ They rob a Countrey, yet thinke themselues honest men; and would hang a poore pettie robber for fortie pence. Let him answere them in the Satyre.
O major tandem parcas in sane minori.
O maior tandem parcas in sane minori.
As no theft can scape condemnation, so yet different degrees shall be punished with different torments. Extortion, usury, fraud, injustice, are not less thefts, because less manifest. Antiochus could make a black horse which he had stolen, seem white, and a white black; so these Thieves have tricks to make evil good, and good evil: especially tacente lege, 1so long as the law holds her peace. But as the other escape not the Gallows, so one day, Dabit Deus his qu que funem; God will give these also condigne punishment. They say, that the dung of the Black-bird falling on the Oak, turns into slime; of that slime is made Birdlime; of that Birdlime is the Bird her-self snared. So these grand Thieves twine a cord of three strings, Injury, Usury, Fraud;