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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 punishments of the wicked are most usually in the like;1 proper and proportionable to their offences. 1. Solomon here opposeth the house of mourning to the house of feasting; as in express terms. Eccle•. 7. for as it is fit in the body,2 that surfeit should be followed with death: so these that greedily make themselves sick with sin, become justly dead in soul. 2. They have affected the works of hell, therefore it is just that hell should affect them, and that every one should be granted their l•wne place. 3. As they would not know what they did, till they had done it; so they fitly know not the place whither they shall go, till they are in it. Nescit: he knoweth not, &c. 4. For the high places, which their ambition climbed to, Ver. 14. They are cast ⟨p. 145⟩down, like Lucifer, to the lowest place, the depth of Hell. As Simon Magus would fly with arrogance, so he came dow•e with a vengeance, and broke his neck. See how fitly they are quoted. mThey eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence: now they are scanted of both, except they will eat the bread of gall, and drink their own tears.
The punishments of the wick•d are most vsually in the like;1 proper and proportionable to their offences. 1. Solomon here opposeth the house of mourning to the house of feasting; as in expresse termes. Eccle•. 7. for as it is fit in the body,2 that surfet should be followed with death: so these that greedily make themselues sicke with sinne, become iustly dead in soule. 2. They haue affected the workes of hell, therefore it is iust that hell should affect them, and that euerie one should be granted their