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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.
TO THE VERY WORTHY GENTLEMAN, Mr. FRANCIS CRAWLEY: saving Health.
TO THE VERY VVORTHY GENTLEMAN, Mr. FRANCIS CRAVVLEY: sauing Health.
SIR:
SYR:
There are four sorts of Banquets, which I may thus distinguish: Laetum, letiferum; bellum, belluinum. The first is a joyful Feast: Such was the Break-fast of the World, in the Law, or the Dinner, in the Gospel, or (yet the future more fully, the Lambs Supper of Glory: this is a delicate Feast. Yet not more, then the next is deadly; the black Banquet, which is prepared for the wicked in Hell. Which consists of two Dishes, saith the School: Poena damni, and poena ⟨image 76⟩sensus; or as the Philosopher distinguisheth all misery, into copiam & inopiam: copia tribulationis, inopia consolationis. Or after some, of three: amissio coeli, privatio terrae, positio inferni: the missing of that they might have had, the privation of that they had, the position of that they have, and would not have, torment: or according to others, of four: Merciless misery, extremity, universality, eternity of anguish. Our Saviour abridgeth all into two, or rather one, (for they are homogenea) weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is a bloody Banquet, where (cross to the festival proverb, the more the merrier) the multitude of guests shall add to the horror of miseries; so afflicting one another with their echoing and reciprocal groans, that it shall be no ease socios habuisse doloris. This is a lamentable, but the third a laudable Feast. It is that the Christian maketh, either to man (which is a Feast of Charity) or to God, (which is a Feast of Grace.) Whereunto God hath promised to be a Guest,