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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.
1It was a good observation, that fell from that Stoic. Homo calamitatis fabula, infaelicitatis tabula. Man is a Story of woe, and a map of misery. So Mantuan.
1It was a good obseruation, that fell from that Stoicke. Homo calamitatis fabula, infaelicitatis tabula. Man is a Storie of woe, and a map of miserie. So Mantuan.
- 1Epictet. qui tolerand as esse iniuria•, et abstinendum à voluptate d•cuit.
Nam quid longa dies nobis, nisi longa dolorum Colluvies? Longi patientià carceris, aetas?
It appears then, that Death is, to the good, a procurer of good. 1Mors intermittit vitam, non eripit. Venit iterum, qui nos in lucem r•ponat dies. Their Death is but like the taking in sunder of a Clock, which is pulled a pieces by the makers hand, that it may be scoured, and repolished, and made go more perfectly. But Death to the wicked is the second step to that infernal Vault, that shall breed either an innovation of their joys, or an addition to their sorrows. Dives for his momentany pleasures, hath insufferable pains. Judas goes from the Gallows to the Pit. Esau from his dissolution in earth, to his desolation in Hell. The dead are there. Though the dead in soul be meant literally, yet it fetcheth in the body also. For as original sin is the original cause of Death, so actual sins hasten it. Men speed out a Commission of Iniquities against their own lives. So the envious man rots his own bones. The Glutton strangles, the Drunkard drowns himself The male-content dries up his blood in fretting. The covetous, whiles he Italianates his conscience, and would Romanize his estate, starves himself in plain English: and would hang himself, when the Market falls, but that he is loath to be at the charges of a Halter. Thus it is a Feast of Death, both for the present sense, and future certainty of it. The dead are there.