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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.
Then put no trust in so weak comforts, that will be unto you, as Egypt to Israel, a Reed; which when you lean upon, it will not only fail you, but the splinters shall run into your hand. gYou shall be ashamed of your weak confidence. The Burden of the beasts of the South. Into the land of trouble &c. I am no Prognosticator. Yet if Cosmography affirm that we live in a Southern Climate, and experience testify that we have many beasts among us; methinks, these words lie as fit for us, as if they were purposely made. How many in our land, by loss of Conscience are become Atheists, and by loss of Reason beasts? who run so fast to this Egyptian feast of wickedness, that he speaks easiest against them that speaks but of a Burden? These having found Satan's temptations true for the daintiness, judging by their own lusts, dare also take his word for the continuance. But if the great Table of this Earth shall be overthrown, what shall become of the dainties that the hand of nature hath set on it? To which purpose saith Jerome. hOh si possemus in talem ascendere speculam, de qua universam terram sub nostris pedibus cerneremus, jam ti•i ostenderem totius orbis ruinas, &c. If it could be granted us to stand on some lofty Pinnacle, ⟨p. 144⟩from which we might behold the whole earth under our feet; how easily persuasion would make these earthly pleasures seem vile in thy opinion? You sa•, your pleasures are, for number manifold, for truth manifest, for dimension great: grant all, though all be false: yet they are for time short, for end sour. Breve est, quod delectat: aeternum, quod cruciat. It is short, that pleaseth them; everlasting, that plagueth them. Pleasure is a channel, and, Death the sea, whereinto it runs. Mellif•uus ingressus, f•llifluus regressus, yield your joys sweet at the Porch, so you grant them bitter at the Posterne. Securus et Securis must meet. Wickedness and wretchedness must be made acquainted. The lewd mans dinner, shall have that rich mans Supper: iThou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. The Devil then you see, is a crafty and cheating host, whose performance falls as short of his promise, as time doth of eternity. Let then the Apostles caveat, be the use of this observation.