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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. It puts into the sick man a sense of mortality; and though many other objects should do no less; yet ⟨p. 209⟩this seasonably performs it. If any particular flatterer, or other carnal friends, should use to him the susurration, that Peter did once to Christ; Master, 1favour thy self: this shall not be unto thee: though sickness lies on your bed, Death shall not enter your Chamber; the evil day is far off; fear nothing: you shall live many years: or as the Devil to our Grandmother, you shall not dye. 2Or if the May of his years shall persuade himself to the remoteness of his Autumn; or if the love of earthly pleasure, shall deny him voluntary leisure to think of Death: As Ep• minondas, General of the Thebans, 3understanding a Captain of his Army to be dead, exceedingly wondered, how in a Camp, any should have so much leisure as to be sick. In a word, whatsoever may flatter him with hope of life; the Bell, like an impartial friend, without either the too broad eyes of pity, or too narrow of partiality, sounds in his own ears, his own weakness: and seems to tell him, that in the opinion of the world, he is no man of the world. Thus with a kind of Divinity, it gives him ghostly counsel; to remit the care of his Carcass, and to admit the cure of his Conscience. It tolls all in: it shall toll thee in to thy grave.
1. It puts into the sicke man a sense of mortallitie; and though many other obiects should do no lesse; yet ⟨p. 209⟩this seasonably performes it. If any particular flatterer, or other carnall friends, should vse to him the susurration, that Peter did once to Christ; Master, 1fauour thy selfe: this shall not be vnto thee: though sicknesse lyes on your bed, Death shall not enter your Chamber; the euill day is farre off; feare nothing: you shall liue many yeeres: or as the Deuill to our Grandmother, you shall not dye.