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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.
Our lives shorten, as if the book of our days were by Gods knife of Judgement, cut less; and brought from Folio, as in the Patriarchs, before the flood, to Quarto in the Fathers after the flood; nay to Octavo, as with the Prophets of the Law, nay even to Decimosexto, as with us in the days of the Gospel. The Elements ⟨p. 205⟩are more mixed, drossy, and confused: the airs are infected: neither wants our intemperance to second all the rest. We hasten that we would not have, Death; and run so to riot in the April of our early vanities, that our May shall not scape the fall of our l•afe. Our great Landlord hath let us a fair house, and we suffer it quickly to run to ruin. That whereas the Soul might dwell in the body, as a Palace of delight, she finds it a crazy, sickish, rotten cabinet, in danger, every gust, of dropping down.
Our liues shorten, as if the booke of our dayes were by Gods knife of Iudgement, cut lesse; and brought from Folio, as in the Patriarchs, before the flood, to Quarto in the Fathers after the flood; nay to Octauo, as with the Prophets of the Law, nay euen to Decimosexto, as with vs in the dayes of the Gospell. The Elements ⟨p. 205⟩are more mixed, drossie, and confused: the ayres are infected: neither wants our intemperance to second all the rest. We hasten that we would not haue, Death; and runne so to riot in the Aprill of our early vanities, that our May shall not scape the fall of our l•afe. Our great Landlord hath let vs a faire house, and we suffer it quickly to runne to ruine. That whereas the Soule might dwell in the body, as a Pallace of delight, shee findes it a crazy, sickish, rotten cabinet, in danger, euery gust, of dropping downe.
How few shalt thou meet, if their tongues would be true to their griefs, without some disturbance or affliction? There lies one groaning of a sick heart; another shakes his aching head: a third roars for the torments of his reins: a fourth for the racking of his gouty joints: a fifth grovels with the Falling-sickness: a last lies half dead of a Palsy. Here is work for the Physicians. They ruffle in the robes of preferment, and ride in the Foot-clothes of reverence. Early and devout suppliants stand at their study doors, quaking, with ready money in their hands, and glad it will be accepted. The body, if it be sick, is content sometimes to buy (unguentum areum, with unguentum aureum) leaden trash, with golden cash. But it is sick, and needs Physic; let it have it.