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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.
5. Being thrashed out, it must (you know) be ground. Satan hath a Water-mill of his own: though founded on mare mortuum, a dead Sea, (for all sins gare dead works) yet the current and stream that drives it, runs with swifter violence, then the straits of Gibraltar. The flood of concupiscence drives it. The Mill consists of two stones, Deliciae & divitiae: Pleasure and Profit. There is no seed of sin, which these two can not grind to powder, and make fit for Bread, when Concupiscence turns the Mill. Rapine, Sacrilege, Murder, Treason, have bin prepared to a wicked mans use, by these Instruments. Quid non mortaliae pectora cogunt? Covetousness and carnal delight bid any sin welcome. Only pleasure is the nether stone; ⟨p. 118⟩Idleness would lye still, but Covetousness is content to trudge about, and glad when any sacks come to the Mill. These two grind all the Devils grist, and supply him with tentations for all the World. All the ugly births of sins, that have ever showed their monstrous and stigmatic forms to the light, have been derived from these Parents; Carnal pleasure and Covetousness. You see how the Devil grinds.
5. Being thrashed out, it must (you know) bee ground. Satan hath a Water-mill of his owne: though founded on mare mortuum, a dead Sea, (for all sinnes gare dead workes) yet the current and streame that driues it, runnes with swifter violence, then the straites of Giberaltare. The flood of concupiscence driues it. The Mill consistes of two stones, Deliciae & diuitiae: Pleasure and Profit. There is no seede of sinne, which these two can not grinde to powder, and make fit for Bread, when Concupiscence turnes the Mill. Rapine, Sacriledge, Murder, Treason, haue bin prepared to a wicked mans vse, by these Instruments. Quid non mortaliae pectora cogunt? Couetousnesse and carnall delight bid any sinne welcome. Onely pleasure is the nether stone; ⟨p. 118⟩Idlenesse would lye still, but Couetousnesse is content to trudge about, and glad when any sackes come to the Mill. These two grinde all the Deuils grist, and supply him with tentations for all the World. All the vgly births of sinnes, that haue euer shewed their monstrous and stigmaticke formes to the light, haue bene deriued from these Parents; Carnall pleasure and Couetousnesse. You see how the Deuill grindes.