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.…

Make a little room in your hea•ts, ye fearless and desperate wretches, for this meditation. Behold, now, as in a speculative glass, the Devils hospitality. Once be wise: believe without trial, without feeling. Yield but to be ^uashamed of your sins, and then I (can with comfort) ask you, •hat fruit they ever brought you? Let me but appeal from Philip of Macedon, when he is drunk, to Philip of Macedon, when he is sober; from your bewitched lusts, to your waked consciences; and you must needs say, that brevis haec, non vera voluptas. All ^xthe works of darkness are unfruitful, except in producing and procuring ^yutter darkness. Sin is the Devils earnest-penny on earth, in Hell he gives the Inheritance. Temptation is his press-money: by rebellion, oppression, usury, blasphemy, the wicked like faithful Soldiers fight his battles: When the field is won, or rather lost (for if he conquers, they are the spoil) in the depth of he•l he gives them pay. Who then would march under his colours; who, though he promise ^zKingdoms, cannot perform a ^aHog? Alas poor beggar! he hath nothing of his own but sin, and death, and hell, and torment. Nihil ad effectum, ad defectum satis. No positive good, enough privative evil.

Make a little roome in your hea•ts, ye fearelesse and desperate wretches, for this meditation. Behold, now, as in aspeculatiue glasse, the Deuils hospitalitie. Once be wise: beleeue without triall, without feeling. Yeeld but to be ^uashamed of your sinnes, and then I (can with comfort) aske you, •hat fruit they euer brought you? Let me but appeale from Philip of Macedon, when hee is drunke, to Philip of Macedon, when he is sober; from your bewitched lusts, to your waked consciences; and you must needes say, that breuis haec, non vera voluptas. All