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.…

I would willingly lead you through some Suburbs, before I bring you to the main City of Desolation; and show you the wretched conclusion of this Banquet, and confusion of these Guests. All which arise from the conterminate situation, or (if I may so speak) from the respondent opposition of these two Sermons, Wisdoms and Follies, that is, Gods and Satan's. For ⟨p. 139⟩this sad sequel is (if not a relative, yet) a redditive demonstration of their misery; for after the infection of sin, follows the infliction of punishment. The turrets I would lead you by, are built, and consist of Farewells and Welcomes; of some things deposed, and some things imposed; positive and privative circumstances; valedictions and maledictions: they take their leaves of temporal and affected joys, and turn upon eternal and cursed sorrows. I will limit these general observations into four.

I would willingly lead you through some Suburbs, before I bring you to the maine Citie of Desolation; and shew you the wretched conclusion of this Banket, and confusion of these Guests. All which arise from the conterminate scituation, or (if I may so speake) from the respondent opposition of these two Sermons, Wisedomes and Follies, that is, Gods and Sathans. For ⟨p. 139⟩this sad sequell is (if not a relatiue, yet) a redditiue demonstration of their miserie; for after the infection of sinne, followes the infliction of punishment. The turrets I would leade you by, are built, and consist of Farewels and Welcomes; of some things deposed, and some things imposed; positiue and priuatiue circumstances; valedictions and maledictions: they take their leaues of temporall and affected ioyes, and turne vpon eternall and cursed sorrowes. I will limit these generall obseruations into foure.

All sinful joys are dammed (if not damned) up with a But. They are troubled with a But-plague;¹ like a Bee with a sting in the tail. They have a worm that crops them, nay gnaws asunder their very root; though they shoot up more hastily, and spread more spatiously then Jonah gourd. There is great preparation of this Banquet, properation to it, participation of it; all is carried with joy and Jovisance: there is a corrective But, a veruntamen, spoils all in the up-shot. A little Colliquintida, that embitters the Broth. A perilous, a pernicious, rock, that splits the Ship in the Haven. When all the prophecies of ill success have been held as Cassandra's riddles; when all the contrary winds of afflictions, all the threatened storms of Gods wrath, could not dishearten the Sinners voyage to these Netherlands; here is a But that shipwrecks all: the very mouth of a bottomless pit, not shallower then Hell it self.