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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. 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, rthe heart doth not laugh with the look. He dares be an hypocrite, that durst be a villain. If he would speak truth of himself he would testify, that his thoughts will not afford him sleep, nor his sleep afford him rest: but whiles his senses are bound, his sin is loose. No command of reason can quiet the tempest in his heart. No son of Sceva, no help of the world, can cast out this Devil. The blood of the body, often being stopped in the issue at the nostrils, bursts out at the mouth, or finds way into the stomach. The conscience thus wounded, will bleed to death, if the blood of Jesus Christ do not stanch it.
1. The earnest is the horrour of an euill conscience; which sparkles with the beginnings of future torments. I know that some feele not this in the pride of their vanities; or at least will not seeme to feele it. Some qwhorish for-heads can out-face their sinnes, and laugh them out of countenance. Wide gorges, that can swallow periuries, bloodynesse, adulteries, vsuries, extortions without trouble. But it may be, rthe heart doth not laugh with the looke. He dares be an hypocrite, that durst be a villaine. If hee would speake truth of hims•lfe he would testifie, that his thoughts will not affoord him sleepe, nor his sleepe affoord him rest: but whiles his senses are bound, his sinne is loose. No command of reason can quiet the tempest in his heart. No sonne of Sceua, no helpe of the world, can cast out this Deuill. The blood of the body, often being stopped in the issue at the nostrils, bursts out at the mouth, or finds way into the stomach. The conscience thus wounded, will bleed to death, if the blood of Iesus Christ doe not stanch it.