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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.
Thy soft flowers have stung me to death. For indeed it is most true, lNemo ipsum peccatum amat, sed male amando illud quod amat, illaqueatur peccato. No man loves sin for it own sake, but by an irregular and sinister love, to that he doth love, he is snared with sin. The Devil knows, that his Ephesian Harlot, Vice, would want worshippers, if treason and death were written up on the Temple-door: therefore health and content are proclaimed, and as on the Theatre presented; but there is Hell under the Stage, there is treason in the vault.
Thy soft flowers haue stung me to death. For indeede it is most true, lNemo ipsum peccatum amat, sed male amando illud quod amat, illaqueatur peccato. No man loues sinne for it owne sake, but by an irregular and sinister loue, to that hee doth loue, hee is snared with sinne. The Deuill knowes, that his Ephesian Harlot, Vice, would want worshippers, if treason and death were written vp on the Temple-dore: therefore health and content are proclaimed, and as on the Theater pr•sented; but there is Hell vnder the Stage, there is treason in the vault.
- lAugustine.
Thus Temptation misleads the Navigators with a Pirates light: deceives the living fowls with a dead bird: a Siren, a Judas, a Jebusite, a Jesuit. For were the Jesuit to play the Devil, or the Devil the Jesuit on the stage of this world; it would be hard to judge which was the Jesuit, which the Devil; or which played the part most naturally. As Iniquities are Satan's Harlots to corrupt the affections; so Jesuits are his E•gines to pervert the brains: for if the new guest here be heart-sick, so their Proselyte is brain-sick. Both are made so dissolute, till they become desolate, robbed and destitute of all comfort.