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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.
The Calumniator is a wretched Thief, and robs man of the best thing he hath: if it be a true Maxim, that the efficacy of the Agent is in the apt disposition of the Patient; whiles thou deprivest man of his credit, thou takest from him all power to do good. The slanderer wounds three at one blow; Uno ictu, uno nictu. 1. The receiver, in poisoning his heart with an uncharitable conceit. 2. The reputation of the slandered: for a mans name is like a glass, if it be once cracked, it is soon broken: every Brier is ready to snatch at the torn garment. 3. The worst blow lights ⟨p. 67⟩on his own soul: for the Arrow will rebound: Maledixit sibi. The slandered scapes best:1 For God shall bring forth his righteousness as the light, &c.
The Calumniatour is a wretched Thiefe, and robs man of the best thing he hath: if it be a true Maxime, that the efficacie of the Agent is in the apt disposition of the Patient; whiles thou depriuest man of his credit, thou takest from him all power to doe good. The slanderer wounds three at one blow; Vno ictu, vno nictu. 1. The receiuer, in poisoning his heart with an vncharitable conceite. 2. The reputation of the slandered: for a mans name is like a glasse, if it bee once crack'd, it is soone broken: euery Brier is readie to snatch at the torne garment. 3. The worst blow lights ⟨p. 67⟩on his owne soule: for the Arrow will rebound: Maledixit sibi. The slandered scapes best:1 For God shall bring forth his righteousnesse as the light, &c.
These are those Hogs in a Garden, which root up the flowers of a mans good parts. But if there were no receiver, there would be no Thief: men would not so burden themselves with the coals of contumely, if they had no where to unload them. It were well for Mephibosheth, that Ziba dwelt a good way from Court. If Saul were deaf, or Doeg dumb; no matter which: for these are two Whelps of that Litter, that must go to hell: one hath the Devil in his ears, the other in his tongue. It is a good general rule of Saint Bernard to govern our tongues by.