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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.
Bread then implies multitudinem salutum, magnitudinem solaminum, plenitudinem omnium bonorum: Much health, great comforts, fullness of all requisite good things. And what? Will Satan brag that he can give all these? and that his Bread, intensive, is so virtual in it own nature: and extensive, that it shall afford so much strength of comfort, validity of nutriment; and never fail the collation of health to his guests? This is in him an hyperbolical, and almost an hyperdiabolicall impudence; to make the bread of sin, equal with the Bread of life: and to ascribe unto it potentiam virtutis, and virtutem dulcedinis; that it is Bread, and sweet bread, nourishing and well-tasted. As Ceres must be taken and worshipped for the Goddess of Corn, and Bacchus for the God of Wine; when they were (at the utmost) but the first Inventers of grinding the one, and pressing the other: for God is the God of both fields and Vineyards. So the Devil would seem owner of Bread and Water, when God only is Lord of Sea and Land; that made and blesseth the Corn and the Rivers. His Power containeth all, and his Providence continueth all that is good unto us.
Bread then implies multitudinem salutum, magnitudinem solaminum, plenitudinem omnium bonorum: Much health, great comforts, fulnesse of all requisite good things. And what? Will Satan bragge that hee can giue all these? and that his Bread, intensiue, is so virtuall in it owne nature: and extensiue, that it shall afford so much strength of comfort, validitie of nutriment; and neuer faile the collation of health to his guests? This is in him an hyperbolicall, and almost an hyperdiabolicall impudence; to make the bread of sinne, equall with the Bread of life: and to ascribe vnto it potentiam virtutis, and virtutem dulcedinis; that it is Bread, and sweet bread, nourishing and well-tasted. As Ceres must bee taken and worshipped for the Goddesse of Corne, and Bacchus for the God of Wine; when they were (at the vtmost) but the first Inuenters of grinding the one, and pressing the other: for God is the God of both fields and Vineyards. So the Deuill would seeme owner of Bread and Water, when God onely is Lord of Sea and Land; that made and blesseth the Corne and the Riuers. His Power containeth all, and his Prouidence continueth all that is good vnto vs.