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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.
4. They both concur to spoil a mans soul: whiles the Soul of the soul, Gods Spirit, (quo agitante calescimus) is by this bereaved us. iIn him we live, move, and have our being. In illo vivimus: vivimus, per naturam, been vivimus per gratiam. In illo movemus, vel movemur potius, ad humana, ad divina opera suscipienda. [Greek or Hebrew]; essentiam habemus, quoad esse, et quoad bene esse. In him all live naturally, some graciously. In him we move, or rather are moved, to the performance, all of humane works, some of divine. In him we have our being; both that we are at all, and that we are well. This better life is the soul spoiled of, when sin hath taken it captive. kThe Adulteress will hunt for the precious life. She is ambitious and would usurp Gods due and claim the heart, the soul. lHe that doth love her destroyeth his own soul. Which she loves not for it self, but for the destruction of it: that all the blossoms of grace may dwindle and shrink away, as blooms in a nipping Frost: and all our comforts run from us, as flatterers from a falling Greatness, or as Vermin from an house on fire. Nay, even both thy ⟨p. 159⟩lives are endangered. The wicked man mgo••h after her, as a fool to the correction of the st•ckes; till a […] strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. It is as inevitably true of the spiritual Harlots mischief. For nthe turning away of the simple shall slay them. Save my life and take my goods, saith the prostrate and yielding Traveller to the thief. But there is no mercy with this enemy: the life must pay for it. She is worse then that invincible Navy, that threatened to cut the throats of all (Men, Women, Infants:) but I would to God, she might go hence again without her errand, as they did; and have as little cause to brag of her conquests.