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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.
Sin is called by Paul, fThe old man; but he is stronger now▪ then he was in his Infancy; diebus Adam•, in the days of Adam. Most mens repentance is in the knee or tongue, but their wickedness in the heart and hand. Money mars all: for this, and the pleasures this may procure, gEsau sells his Birth-right, hJudas sells his Master, iAhab sells himself to work wickedness. Sin was wont to love ⟨p. 125⟩privacy, as if she walked in fear. The Tippler kept his private Ale-bench, not the Market place: the Adulterer his Chamber, not (with kAbsalom) the house-top: the Thief was for the night or sequestrate ways: the corrupt Lawyer took bribes in his Study, not in the open Hall; but now (peccata nullas petitura te••bras) our sins scorn the dark. Men are so far from being lashamed of their fruitless lives, that mala comittunt, commissa jactant, jactata defendunt: they commit evil, •oast that they committed, and defend that they boasted. mPride is worn as a chain, and cruelty as a garment; conspectu omnium, as proud of the fashion. They talk of a Conscience, that seeks covers, like Adams Fig leaves: but these nglory in their shame; whose end is damnation, saith Saint Paul. The very Harlot comes short of them: she wipes her lips, and saith, she hath not sinned. B•tter fare those, that yet would be accounted honest.