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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. The fourth Cup is Envy: Water of a strange and uncouth taste. There is no pleasure in being drunk with this stolen water: for it frets and gnaws both in palates and entrails. There is no good relish with it, either in taste or digestion. Only it is like that Acidula aqua, that Pliny speaks of, which makes a man drunk sooner then wine. Envy keeps a Register of Injuries; and graves that in Marble which Charity writes in the dust, Wrong. It cannot endure that any should be conferred with it, preferred to it.
4. The fourth Cup is Enuie: Water of a strange and vncouth taste. There is no pleasure in being drunke with this stollen water: for it frets and gnawes both in palates and entralls. There is no good rellish with it, either in tast or digestion. Onely it is like that Acidula aqua, that Plinie speakes of, which makes a man drunke sooner then wine. Enuie keepes a Register of Iniuries; and graues that in Marble which Charitie writes in the dust, Wrong. It cannot endure that any should be conferred with it, preferred to it.
Nec quemquam jam ferre potest Caesarue priorem, Pompeiusue parem.
Nec quemquam iam ferre potest Caesarue priorem, Pompeiusue parem.
Caesar can brook no Greater; Pompey no rival. John Baptist was of another spirit:1 when he heard that the people had left him to follow Christ, he spake with the voice of content, My joy is fulfilled. He must increase, and I must decrease. Inuidus non est idoneus auditor. 2The envious man is an incompetent hearer: his ears are not fit to his head. If he hears good of another, he frets that it is good: if ill, he is discontent that he may not judge him for it. If wronged, he cannot stay Gods leisure to quit him: he is straight, either a Saul or an Esau; by secret ambushes, or by open hostility, he must carve himself a satisfaction. No plaster will heal his pricked finger, but his heart-blood that did it: if he might serve himself, he would take unreasonable penny-worths. S. Augustine would cool his heat. Vis vindicari Christian? Wilt thou be revenged of thine adversary oh Christian? tarry a while: Nondum