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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.
Solomon hath described the persons feasting and feasted. The place remains, the depth of Hell. This is the Banqueting house. It amplifies the misery of the guests in three circumstances. 1. their weakness, they are soon in, 2. the place, Hell. 3. the unrecoverablenesse of it. The depth of Hell.
Solomon hath described the persons feasting and feasted. The place remaines, the depth of Hell. This is the Banketing house. It amplifies the miserie of the guests in three circumstances. 1. their weaknesse, they are soone in, 2. the place, Hell. 3. the vnrecouerablenesse of it. The depth of Hell.
1. Per infirmitatem. In regard of their weakness. No sooner come to the Banquet, but presently in the Pit: they are in: they are soon in. They would not resist the tentation, when it was offered: they cannot resist the tribulation, when it is to be suffered: They are in. No wrestling, no contending can keep them from falling in. Into the pit they run against their will, that ran ⟨p. 183⟩so volently, so violently to the brinks of it. As a man that hath taken his career, and runs full fling to a place, cannot recoil himself, or recall his strength on the sudden. He might have refused to enter the race, or recollected himself in time, but at the last step he cannot stop, nor revocare gradum, rescue himself from falling. The guests, that hasten themselves all their life to the feast of vanity, and neither in the first step of their youth, nor in the middle race of their discreetest age, return to God, do at last (without Christs help) precipitate themselves into the depth of Hell. Think, oh think, ye greedy Dogs, that can never fast enough devour your sinful pleasures, if in the pride of your strength, the May of your blood, the marrow and virtue of your life, when you are seconded with the gifts of nature, nay blest with the helps of heaven, you cannot resist the allurements of Satan; how unable will you be to deal with him, when custom in sin hath weakened your spirits, and God hath withdrawn his erst afforded comforts? They that run so fiercely to the pit, are quickly in the pit. The guests are in the depth of Hell.