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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.
If this doctrine were true, it was time to raze Christs speech out of the Scriptures: It is hard for a rich man to enter into Heaven: 1for it is easy for the rich, that can open the gate with a golden Key, and the poor are only in danger of exclusion. And, that which would be most strange, Hell should be peopled with none but Beggars: Not an Usurer, not an Epicure, not a Cormorant, not a vicious Potentate should grace the Court of Satan. For the Pope will for Money seal them a Passport for Heaven. Nay, how doth this disgrace Purgatory! when none but beggarly wretches shall be in danger of drowning in that whirlpool. Whence all their friends (being equally poor) have not money enough for their redemption. These are the rotten post• whereon the Fabric of Rome stands. Think not their stolen waters cheap. Your purses must pay for them. Yet happy were you, if no higher price was set on them. All is not discharged with your ready m•ny; there is another reckoning: your souls mus• pay for the•. The Devil ties his Customers in the bond of Debts; and woe to ⟨p. 109⟩them, that are too far in his books: for if Christ cancel not his hand-writing against them, 2he will sue them to an eternal Outlawry; and make them pay their souls, for that they boasted they had so good cheap.
If this doctrine were true, it was time to raze Christs speech out of the Scriptures: It is hard for a rich man to enter into Heauen: 1for it is easie for the rich, that can open the gate with a golden Key, and the poore are onely in danger of exclusion. And, that which would be most strange, Hell should be peopled with none but Beggars: Not an Vsurer, not an Epicure, not a Cormorant, not a vicious Potentate should grace the Court of Sathan. For the Pope will for Money seale them a Pasport for Heauen. Nay, how doth this disgrace Purgatory! when none but beggerly vvretches shall bee in danger of drowning in that whirlepoole. Whence all their friends (being equally poore) haue not money enough for their redemption. These are the rotten post whereon the Fabricke of Rome stands. Thinke not their stolen waters cheape. Your purses must pay for them. Yet happy were you, if no higher price was set on them. All is not discharged vvith your ready mny; there is another reckoning: your soules mus pay for the. The Deuill tyes his Customers in the bond of Debets; and vvoe to