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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 Breaking up of the Devils Banquet. The third Sermon.
THE Breaking vp of the Deuils Banket. The third Sermon.
PROVERB. 9.17. Stolen waters are sweet, and Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
PROVERB. 9.17. Stollen waters are sweet, and Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
THE custom of sin hath so benumbed the sense of it; and the delighted affections brought the conscience so fast a sleep in it; that ahe troubles Israel, who would waken Israel: and his speech is harsh Barbarism, that speaks against the Devils bDiana; the Idol of Vice, which many worship. Our understandings think well of Heaven, but our affections think better of Earth. Alexander after his great Conquests, wrote to the Grecian Senate, Ut se deum facerent, that they would accept him into the number of their ⟨p. 96⟩Gods. With a resolute consent, they denied it. At last a (right) Politician stood up,3 and told them, that (videndum est, ne dum coelum nimis custod•rent, terram amitterent) they should look well to it; least whiles they were so religious for heaven, they lost their part of earth. Hence they made (though but a perfunctory and fashionable) decree. Quoniam Alexander Deus esse vult, Deus esto. Since Alexander will be a God, let him be one. God commends to us his heavenly graces; Satan his