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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.
3. Both are uncomfortable seasons. Nox & erroris & terroris plenissima. The night is full of wondering, of wandering. Imagine the Egyptians case in that gross and palpable darkness:1 the longest natural night, that the Book of God specifies. A silent, solitary, melancholy, inextricable season. In which, [Greek or Hebrew]; no murmur disquiets the Air; no man hears his name; no Birds sing; except the ⟨p. 121⟩Owl and the Night-raven, which croak only dismal things.
3. Both are vncomfortable seasons. Nox & erroris & terroris plenissima. The night is full of wondring, of wandring. Imagine the Egyptians case in that grosse and palpable darkenesse:1 the longest naturall night, that the Booke of God specifies. A silent, solitary, melancholy, inextricable season. In which, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; no murmure disquiets the Ayre; no man heares his name; no Birds sing; except the ⟨p. 121⟩Owle and the Night-rauen, which croake onely dismall things.
4. Both are fit seasons for foul spirits to range in. It hath been fabled of night-walking sprites. Let it be false, yet this is true: the Devil is the xPrince of darkness; his kingdom is a kingdom of darkness; and his walks are the walks of darkness. In the caliginous night of Superstition and Ignorance, he plays Rex, and captivates many a soul to his obedience. His children (as it is fit) have the same disposition with their father. They are Tenebrio's, and love nocturnos conuentus, meetings in the dark: as the owder-Tratours met in the Vault. But the eyes of Jehovah see not only things one in the tops of the Mountains, but could spy the Treason of the Vault.