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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.
The vulgar Latin translation, I know not upon what ground, hath interpreted here, for mortui, Gigantes: thus: he knoweth not that the Giants are there. Monstrous men, that would dart thunder at God himself; and raise up mountains of impiety against Heaven. As if they were only great men that feasted at Satan's Banquet, whose riches were able to minister matter to their pleasures. And surely such are in these days: of whose sins when we have cast an inventory account, we might thus with the Poet sum up themselves.
The vlgar Latine translation, I know not vpon what ground, hath interpreted here, for mortui, Gigantes: thus: hee knoweth not that the Gyants are there. Monstrous men, that would dart thunder at God himselfe; and raise vp mountaines of impietie against Heauen. As if they were onely great men that feasted at Sathans Banket, whose riches were able to minister matter to their pleasures. And surely such are in these dayes: of whose sinnes when we haue cast an inventory account, we might thus with the Poet sum vp themselues.
Vi• dicam quid sis? magnus es Ardelio. Thou hast great lands, great power, great sins: and than D•st ask me what thou art? th'art a great man.
Vi• dicam quid sis? magnus es Ardelio. Thou hast great lands, great power, great sinnes: and than D•st aske me what thou art? th'art a great man.
The Giants, in the Scripture, 1were men of a huge stature, of a fierce nature. The Poets feigned their Giants to be begotten and bred of the Sun and the Earth, and to offer violence to the Gods: some of them having an hundred hands, as Briareiu was called centimanus: meaning, they were of great command; as Helen wrote to Paris of her husband Menelaus. An nescis longas regibus esse manus? This word Giants, if the original did afford it, must be referred, either to the guests; signifying that monstrous men resorted to the Harlots table, & that it was Gigantoum convivium, a tyrannous feast: or else (and that rather) to the tormentors; which are