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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.
2. In his good name. No worldly undoing is like this shipwreck. Goods may be redeemed, but this (semel amissa, postea nullus eris) once utterly lost, thou art nobody. It is hard to recover the Set, when a man is put to the after-game for his credit. Though many a ma•s reputation be but (hypemeni•m ovum) a rotten Egg; whiles he is a great dealer with other mens goods, and of himself no better then a beggar. And though the most famous are but Astmatici, short-breathed men, and their reputation no better then Ephraims righteousness, but a morning dew: yet actum est de homine, cum actum est de nomine, when a mans good name is done, himself is undone.
2. In his good name. No worldly vndoing is like this shipwrack. Goods may be redeemed, but this (semel amissa, postea nullus eris) once vtterly lost, thou art nobody. It is hard to recouer the Set, when a man is put to the after-game for his credit. Though many a ma•s reputation be but (hypemeni•m •vum) a rotten Egge; whiles he is a great dealer with other mens goods, and of himselfe no better then a begger. And though the most famous are but Astmatici, short-breathed men, and their reputation no better then Ephraims righteousnesse, but a morning dewe: yet actum est de homine, cum actum est de nomine, when a mans good name is done, himselfe is vndone.
A man, indeed, may loose his good name without cause; and be at once accused & abused; when slanders against him are maliciously excepted, & easily accepted. But aGod shall bring forth his righteousness as the light, and his Judgment as the noon day. Contrarily, another man hides the ulcers of his sore conscience with the plasters of sound repute! But to be puffed up with the wrongful estimation of our selves, by the flattering breath of others blown praises, is a ridiculous pride. Saepe flagellatur in corde proprio, qui laudatur in or alieno. Many, that are commended in other mouths, are secretly and justly snibbed in their own conscience. Such a one cozens his neighbours, they one another, and all himself. And as originally the deceit came from him, so eventually the shame will end in him. Hence they, whose fames have been carried furthest on the wings of report, have been after (by the manifestation of their hidden wickednesses) more deadened in mens thoughts, then in their own carcass. For