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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.
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.
Thus Temptation misleades the Nauigatours with a Pyrates light: deceiues the liuing fowles with a dead bird: a Syren, a Iudas, a Iebusite, a Iesuite. For were the Iesuite to play the Deuill, or the Deuill the I•suite on the stage of this world; it would be hard to iudge which was the Iesuite, which the Deuill; or which played the part most naturally. As Iniqu•ties are Sathans Harlots to corrupt the affections; so Iesuites are his E•gines to peruert the braines: for if the new guest here be heart-sicke, so their Pro•elite is braine-sicke. Both are made so dissolute, till they become desolate, robbed and destitute of all comfort.
Sin deals with her guests, as that bloody Germane Prince, that having invited many great States to a solemn Feast, flattered and singled them out one by ⟨p. 153⟩one, and cut off all their heads. As fatal a success attends on the flatteries of sin. Oh then, fuge peccatum exulceratricem hanc: Fly this Harlot, that carries death about her. Go aloof from her door, as they say, the Devil doth by the Cross: but (let that savour of supposition, nay of superstition) do thou in sincere devotion fly from sinne, quasi à facie colubri, as from a Serpent. She hath a Sirens voice, a Mermaids face, a Helens beauty to tempt thee: but a Lepers touch, a Serpents sting, a traitorous hand to wound thee. The best way to conquer Sin, is by the Parthian war, to run away. So the Poet.