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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.
That you may conceive things more spiritual and remote, by passions nearer to sense. Suppose that a man being gloriously robed, deliciously feasted. Prince-like served, attended, honoured, and set on the proudest height of pleasure that ever mortality boasted; should in one (unsuspected) moment be tumbled down to a bottom, more full of true miseries, then his promontory was of false delights: and there be ringed about with all the gory Murderers, black Atheists, sacrilegious Church-robbers, and incestuous Ravishers, that have ever disgorged their poison on earth, to re-assume it in Hell: Nay add further to this supposition, that this depth he is thrown into, was no better then a vast ⟨p. 194⟩Charnel-house, hung round with lamps burning blew and dim, set in hollow corners; whose glimmering serves to discover the hideous torments: all the ground in stead of green rushes, strewed with funeral rosemary and dead mens bones: some corpses standing upright in their knotted winding-sheets; others rotted in their Coffins, which yawn wide to vent their stench: there the bare ribs of a Father that begat him, here the hollow skull of a Mother that bare him. How direful and amazing are these things to sense!
That you may conceiue things more spirituall and remote, by passions neerer to sense. Suppose that a man being gloriously roabed, deliciously feasted. Prince-like serued, attended, honoured, and set on the proudest height of pleasure that euer mortallitie boasted; should in one (vnsuspected) moment be tumbled downe to a bottome, more full of true miseries, then his promontory was of false delights: and there be ringed about with all the gory Mutherers, blacke Atheists, sacrilegious Church-robbers, and incestuous Rauishers, that haue euer disgorged their poyson on earth, to re-assume it in Hell: Nay adde further to this supposition, that this depth he is throwne into, was no better then a vast ⟨p. 194⟩Charnell-house, hung round with lamps burning blew and dimme, set in hollow corners; whose glimmering serues to discouer the hideous torments: all the ground in stead of greene rushes, strewed with fun•rall rosemary and dead mens bones: some corpses standing vpright in their knotted winding-sheetes; others rotted in their Coffins, which yawne wide to vent their stench: there the bare ribs of a Father that begat him, heere the hollow skull of a Mother that bare him. How direfull and amazing are these things to sense!