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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.
The Bread of secrecy being described, I should come in the third and last place, to the Ascription: It is pleasant. But because the former adjunct of sweetness, doth but little diversify from this of Pleasure; and I shall have just occasion to convince the Devils feigned delicacy, from Solomons proved misery: I will therefore silence it. And for conclusive application, give me the leave of your patience, to examine the truth of the (former) secrecy.
The Bread of secrecie being described, I should come in the third and last place, to the Ascription: It is pleasant. But because the former adiunct of sweetnesse, doth but little diuersifie from this of Pleasure; and I shall haue iust occasion to conuince the Deuils fained delicacie, from Solomons proued miserie: I will therefore silence it. And for conclusiue application, giue mee the leaue of your patience, to examine the truth of the (former) secrecie.
It is the Devils policy, though he can not blind his eyes that made the light in Heaven,1 and the sight in man; yet he would darken our sins with the veil of secrecies from the view of the world. And are they so? no, (the suffering eye sees them, and can point them out, nay) sensible demonstration speaks them to the ea•es, and objects them to the sight of man. The iniquities of these days are not ashamed to show their faces; but walk the streets without fear of a Ser•eant. The sins of the City are as pert and apert as the sons of the City. I ⟨p. 124⟩would Iniquity was not bolder then Honesty; or that Innocence might speed no worse then Nocence. Absit ut sic, 2sed utinam ut vel sic, saith Saint Augustine, in the like case: God forbid it should be so bad; yet I would it were no worse. For the times are so wheeled about to their old bias, that vix licet esse bonum, it is scarce safe to be an honest man. Suspicion makes the good evil, and flattery makes the evil good, the first in the opinion of others; the last in the opinion of themselves. Our faith is small, and led th reason; our life evil, and led without reason. Corruptio morum tolit scientiam ethicam. Our evil manners shut up Philosophy and Divinity too into the cave of Ignorance.