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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 SHOT, OR The woeful price which the wicked pay for the Feast of Vanity. The fourth Sermon.
THE SHOT, OR The vvofull price vvhich the wicked pay for the Feast of Vanitie. The fourth Sermon.
PROVERB. 9.18. But he knoweth no• that the dead are there, and that her guests a•e in the depth of Hell.
PROVERB. 9.18. But hee knoweth no• that the dead are there, and that her guests a•e in the depth of Hell.
Satan's guests are unhappily come from the end of a Feast, to the beginning of a fray. As the Sodomites eat and drunk, till the fire was about their ears: so these are jovial, and sing care away; but it seems by the sequel, that the Devil will not be pleased with a Song; as the Host in the Fable, with the singing guest. He cries out, as the Usurer at his ⟨p. 138⟩spawning hour, Give me my money: Arguments are held complements; persuasions, entreaties, promises of speedy satisfaction will do no good on him that hath no good in him: he is like the Cuckoo, always in one tune, Give me my money. The Debtor may entreat, this Creditor will not retreat; he will to war, (you know the Usurers war) except he may have his money. So the great Usurer, the Devil, (I hope Usurers do not scorn the comparison) when the Feast is done, looks for a reckoning. The Usurer, perhaps, will take security; so will the Devil: Security and deadness of heart, will a great while please him. But when Dives hath dined, the Devil takes away: Death is his knife, and Hell his voider. He takes away one Dish more then he set down; in stead of the reversion, the Feasters themselves, nay the Feast-maker too: for Dives is the founder, and Satan is the confounder: the one provides meat for the belly, the other, by Gods sufferance,