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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.
What could make the Religion of Rome so sweet and welcome to many, but the congruence and pleasingness to their nature? Whiles Nature finds ascribed to her self freedom of will, validity of merits, the Latitude of an ignorant and cursory faith, she runs mad of conceit. That Indulgences for all sins may be derived from that open Exchequer; that if a man wants not money, he needs not loose heaven; that the bare Act of the Sacrament confers grace without faith; ⟨p. 111⟩and the mere transient sign of the Cross, who ever makes it, can keep off the Devil. Oh Religion sweet to Nature. Nay (to speak nearer to our district instance.) Lust not only affectuall, but actual, is dispensed with. Priests are licensed their Concubines, though inhibited Wives. Adultery is reckoned among their petty sins. I have read it quoted out of Pope Innocentius the third, of their Priests. Mane filium virginis offerunt in choro: Nocte filium veneris agitant in thorough. The Priests do not engross all the Market of venery to themselves, (yet they do prettily well, for their allowance. One Benefice with one Wife is unlawful, 1but two Benefices and three Whores are tolerable.) But the Stews, like the common Bath, is afforded to the Laity; and if their States will maintain it, a private supply besides. Urbs est jam tota Lupanar. The whole City is become a mere Stews. As the Prophet Isaiah said once of Jerusalem; so we may say of Rome: The holy City is become an Harlot. 2Full of Harlots they vvill not stick to yield, and so gfull of Adulterers. Nay, the City it self is an Harlot, and hhath left her first love. She commits Idolatry, (which is the vilest Adultery) with Stocks and Stones.
What could make the Religion of Rome so sweet and welcome to many, but the congruence and pleasingnesse to their nature? Whiles Nature findes ascribed to her selfe freedome of will, validitie of merites, the Latitude of an ignorant and cursorie faith, she runnes mad of conceit. That Indulgences for all sinnes may be deriued from that open Exchequour; that if a man wants not money, he needes not loose heauen; that the bare Act of the Sacrament conferres grace without faith;