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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.
This is a world to make Physicians rich; if men loved not their purse, better then their health. For the world waxeth old, and old age is weak and sickly. As when death begins to seize upon a man, his brain by little and little groweth out of order; his mind becomes ⟨p. 204⟩cloudy and troubled with fantasies; the channels of his blood, and the radical moisture (the oil that fe•ds the lamp of his life) begin to dry up: all his limbs loose their former agility. As the little world thus decays in the great, so the great decays in it self: that Nature is fain to lean on the staff of Art, •nd to be held up by mans industry. The signs, which Christ hath given to fore-run the worlds ruin, are called by a Father,1 aegritudines Mundi: the diseases or sicknesses of the world, as sickness naturally goes before death. Wars dying the earth into a sanguine hew: dead carcasses infecting the airs; and the infected airs breathing about plagues and pestilences, and sore contagions. Whereof, saith the same Father, null• magis quam nos testes sumus, quos mundi finis inuenit, none can be more certain witnesses then we upon whom athe ends of the world are come. That sometimes the influences of Heaven spoil the fruits of the earth; and the fogs of earth soil the virtues of the Heavenly bodies: that neither Planets above, nor plants below, yield us expected comforts. So God, for our sins, brings the heaven, the earth, the air, and whatsoever was created for mans use, to be his enemy, and to war against him. And all because, bomnia quae ad usum vitae accipimus, ad usum vitij conuertimus: we turn all things to vices corruption, which were given for natures protection. Therefore, what we have diverted to wickedness, God hath reverted to our revenge. We are sick of sin, and therefore the world is sick of us.
THis is a world to make Phisitians rich; if men loued not their purse, better then their health. For the world waxeth old, and old age is weake and sickly. As when death begins to ceaze vpon a man, his braine by little and little groweth out of order; his minde becomes