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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 Ascription of the quality (in it self•) or effect (to others) of these •aters, if we may believe Temptation, is Sweet. Stolen waters are Sweet. It is the speech of the dFather of •ies, and therefore to carry little credit with us. Sweet? to none but those that are Lust-sick; like them •hat are troubled with the green-sickness; that think Chalk, and Salt, and Rubbish, savoury. It is a strangely-affected soul, that can find Sweetness in sin. Sin is the depravation of goodness: the same that rottenness in the Apple, sourness in the Wine, putrefaction in the flesh, is sin in the conscience. Can that be sweet which is the depraving and depriving of all sweetness? Let any subtlety of the Devil declare this riddle. The prae-existent privations ⟨p. 97⟩were deformity, confusion, darkness. The position of their opposite perfections, was the expulsion of those foul contraries. Sin comes like bleak and squalid Winter, and drives out these fair beauties: turns the Sun-shine to blackness; calmness to tempests; ripeness to corruption; health to sickness; sweetness to bitterness.
The Ascription of the quality (in it self•) or effect (to others) of these •aters, if we may beleeu• Temptation, is Sweet. Stollen waters are Sweet. It is the speech of the dFather of •ies, and therefore to carrie little credit with vs. Sweet? to none but those that are Lust-sicke; like them •hat are troubled with the greene-sicknesse; that thinke Chalke, and Salt, and Rubbish, sauourie. It is a strangely-affected soule, that can finde Sweetnesse in sinne. Sinne is the deprauation of goodnesse: the same that rottennesse in the Apple, sowrenesse in the Wine, putrefaction in the flesh, is sinne in the conscience. Can that be sweet which is the deprauing and depriuing of all sweetnesse? Let any subtilty of the Deuill declare this riddle. The prae-existent priuations