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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.
Lo now the Shot at the Devils Banquet. A reckoning must be paid, and this is double. 1. the earnest in this life. 2. the full payment in the life to come. The earnest ⟨p. 189⟩is, whiles Hell is cast into the wicked: the full satisfaction is, when the wicked shall be cast into Hell. pWhosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the Lake of fire. I will take leave to amplify both these a little further.
Loe now the Shot at the Deuils Banket. A reckoning must be payd, and this is double. 1. the earnest in this life. 2. the full payment in the life to come. The earnest ⟨p. 189⟩is, whiles Hell is cast into the wicked: the full satisfaction is, when the wicked shall be cast into Hell. pWhosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life, was cast into the Lake of fire. I will take leaue to amplifie both these a little further.
1. The earnest is the horror of an evil conscience; which sparkles with the beginnings of future torments. I know that some feel not this in the pride of their vanities; or at least will not seem to feel it. Some qwhorish for-heads can out-face their sins, and laugh them out of countenance. Wide gorges, that can swallow perjuries, bloodiness, adulteries, usuries, extortions without trouble. But it may be,