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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.
Stat meretrix certo quovis mercabilis aere: Et miseras jusso corpore quaerit opes. Compared with Harlots, the worst beast is good: No beasts, but they, will sell their flesh and blood.
Stat meretrix certo quouis mercabilis aere: Et miseras iusso corpore quaerit opes. Compar'd with Harlots, the worst beast is good: No beasts, but they, will sell their flesh and blood.
The old Proverb conjoins venery and beggary. The Prodigal returned not from his Harlot without an empty Purse. Sin doth no less undo a mans estate. It is a Purgatory to his Patrimony. It is objected: It rather helps him to riches, and swells his purse. Doth not a bribed hand, a sycophant-tongue, a covetous and griping palm make men wealthy? Yield wealthy, not rich. He is rich, that possesseth what he got justly, and useth what he possesseth conscionably, other wealthy, are not unlike either the Capuchins, or the Seculars. Some, like the former, profess beggary, though they possess the Indies: these had rather fill their eye then their belly, and will not break a Sum, though they endanger their healths. The other sort, are like the Seculars, that will fare well, though with a hard farewell.1 But (as the Harlot, so) often Vice brings a man to a morsel of bread. Prou. 6. Thus Tibi fit damne, vitio lucrosa voluptas: Pleasure is no less, then a loss to thee, then a gain to Sin. It is not amiss, to answer Satan's Inviters to this Feast, as the vicious Poet his Cockatrice.
The old Prouerbe conioynes venery and beggerie. The Prodigall returned not from his Harlot without an empty Purse. Sinne doth no lesse vndoe a mans estate. It is a Purgatorie to his Patrimonie. It is obiected: It rather helps him to riches, and swels his purse. Doth not a bribed hand, asycophant-tong•e, a couetous and griping palme make men wealthie? Yeeld wealthie, not rich. He is rich, that possesseth what hee got iustly, and vsth what he possesseth conscionably, other wealthy, are not vnlike either the Capuchines, or the Seculars. Some, like the former, professe beggerie, though they possesse the Indies: these had rather fill their eye then their belly, and will not breake a Summe, though they endanger their healths. The other sort, are like the Seculars, that will fare well, though with a hard farewell.