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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 Pope is a great Seller of these Stolen waters: (yet his Chapmen think them cheap.) He thrusts his Spear into the Mountains, and sluiceth out whole floods: as it is fabled of Aeolus. He usurps that of God, that he can span the waters in his fist: that he hath all the graces of God in his own power; and no water can pass besides his Mill: as if he could ycall for the waters of the Sea, and pour them out upon the face of the Earth: or as Job speaketh of Behemoth: zBehold, he drinketh up a River and hasteth not: and trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. As if all the graces of God were packed up in a bundle, or shut into a box, and the Pope only was put in trust to keep the Key; and had authority to give and deny them.3 So Aeolus the God of Winds (saith the Poet) gave Ulysses a Mail, wherein all the Winds were bound and wrapped up together; except the Western wind, which he must needs occupy to carry himself home. The Pope brags, that all waters are banked up into his fountain, and none can drink but by his leave; except the Supremacy & perfect Sanctity: which is the Wind and the Water, he must use himself, thereby to sail to ⟨p. 107⟩Heaven: (a Haven that few Popes arrive at:) but otherwise there is no grace to be had, but from the mother-Church of Rome, whose uncontrollable head is the Pope. A miserable Engrosser, that would shut up all goodness into his own Ware-house. Yet when he lists, he will undertake to apour floods on the solid ground; and bmake Rivers run in dry places.
The Pope is a great Seller of these Stollen waters: (yet his Chapmen thinke them cheape.) He thrusts his Speare into the Mountaines, and sluceth out whole floods: as it is fabled of Aeolus. Hee vsurpes that of God, that he can spanne the waters in his fist: that he hath all the graces of God in his owne power; and no water can passe besides his Mill: as if hee could