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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.
Our most fortified delights are like the child's castle, done down with a fillip: [Greek or Hebrew], nay [Greek or Hebrew] a shadow, the very dream of a shadow, a rotten post, slightly painted, a paper-tower, which the least puff overturns.
Our most fortified delights are like the childs castle, done downe with a fillop: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nay 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a shadow, the very dreame of a shadow, a rotten post, slightly painted, a paper-tower, which the least puffe ouerturnes.
Cuncta trahit secum, vertitque volubile tempus.
Time whirls about the world, and makes all inferior things to travel and spend themselves together with him. Sinful and earthly delight is well called, amiabile, fragile, flebile, a thing soon loved, sooner ended, but long, very long lamented: a rotten nut, fair but hollow. Though Philosophy saith, there is no vacuity in rerum natura, yet Divinity saith, there is nothing ⟨p. 143⟩but vacuity in naturae rebu•. Nature, as it is not only corrupt of it self, but made more foul in the evil mans use, hath nothing in it, but vanity: and vanity is nothing: a mere emptiness, a vacuity. Hence, if Aristotle commends the nature of things, the better Philosopher Solomon, discommends the things of nature; especially in their base and bad usage. Only the Devils Feast-house hath a fair bush at the door, (yet if the wine were good, what needs the Ivy?) and f