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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.
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; ⟨p. 64⟩Covetousness twists them into a rope, the Devil makes the noose, a•d of this cord they are strangled: A threefold Cable is not easily broken. Whiles they steal from others the interest, they rob themselves of the principal, their souls. They please the world with their baits, ready money, but there is a hook under the bait.
As no theft can scape condemnation, so yet di•ferent degrees shall be punished with di•ferent torments. Extortion, vsury, fraud, iniustice, are not lesse thefts, because lesse manifest. Antiochus could make a black horse which he had stollen, seeme white, and a white blacke; so these Theeues haue trickes to make euill good, and good euill: especially tacente lege, 1so long as the law holds her peace. But as the other escape not the Gallowes, so one day, Dabit Deus his qu• que funem; God will giue these also condigne punishment. They say, that the dung of the Blacke-bird falling on the Oake, turnes into slime; of that slime is made Birdlime; of that Birdlime is the Birde her-selfe snared. So these graund Theeues twine a cord of three strings, Iniurie, Vsurie, Fraud; ⟨p. 64⟩