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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.
1. They are dead to Sin. qHow shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? A dead nature cannot work. He that is dead to sin, cannot, as he is dead, sin. We sin indeed, not because we are dead to sin, but because not dead enough. Would to God you were yet more dead, that you might yet more live. This is called Mortification. What are mortified? Lusts. The wicked have mortification too; but it is of grace. Matth. 8. They are both jointly expressed. Let the dead bury the dead. 2Which Saint Augustine expounds. rLet the spiritually dead, bury those that are corporally dead. The faithful are dead to sin: the faithless are dead in sin. It is true life to be thus dead. Mortificatio concupiscentiae, vi•ificatio animae: so far is the spirit quickened, as the flesh is mortified. So true is this Paradox; that a Christian so far lives, as he is dead: so far•e he is a Conqueror, as he is conquered. Vincendo see, vincitur à see. By overcoming himself, he is overcome of himself. Whiles he over-rules his lusts, his soul rules him. When the outward cold ⟨p. 165⟩rageth with greatest violence, the inward heat is more and more effectual. When Death hath killed and stilled concupiscence, the heart begins to live. This war makes our peace.
1. They are dead to Sinne. qHow shall wee that are dead to sinne, liue any longer therein? A dead nature cannot worke. He that is dead to sinne, cannot, as hee is dead, sinne. Wee sinne indeede, not because wee are dead to sinne, but because not dead enough. Would to God you were yet more dead, that you might yet more liue. This is called Mortification. What are mortified? Lustes. The wicked haue mortification too; but it is of grace.